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Probability of finding a point on or in an $n$-dimensional unit sphere
If a point is chosen at random in an $N$-dimensional unit sphere, what is the probability of falling inside the sphere of radius $0.99999999$? What if $N=3$, $N=10^{23}$, or $N = \infty $?
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Clarification in a paper
This is regarding a clarification in page 384 of a paper published in Annals of Statistics by Amari.
In page no. 384, he defines $$R_i(t)=\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta_i} ...
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Optimal $p$ for biased coin?
You are given a biased coin with probability $p$ of getting $H$ and $1-p$ of getting tail. Each flip is independent of another. We keep flipping the coin until we get $4$ consecutive tails. For each ...
