Book - Probability and Statistics - Chapter 2 - section 1 - Introduction

Play time - Monty Hall Paradox - Videos and Links

Here are some links and videos about the Monty Hall paradox. I confess that the idea that switching doors was the right strategy was highly counterintuitive to me, but at least I am not alone (see the Wikipedia link).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_monty_hall_problem


See the Wolfram simulation at: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MontyHallParadox/

Book - Probability and Statistics - Section 1.5. Descriptive Statistics - Numerical Measures

Book - Probability and Statistics - Introduction

Introduction

These lecture notes are an introduction to Probability and Statistics designed for undergraduate students in Engineering, Economics and the quantitative Sciences. They should also be useful for practitioners.

Their style is quite informal, and I would like my readers to feel as if I were talking to them.

I realize it is a very bold and maybe pretentious move for a non-native speaker to attempt writing a textbook in English, but the objective is to reach as wide an audience as possible and, in my humble opinion, English is the Latin of the early 21^st century, at least in what concerns technical jargon.

Many examples and datasets in the text refer to Brazil, my native country, but hopefully they are common enough to be understood by readers worldwide. If not, please let me know.

These notes will be continuously published as blog posts and eventually will form a book.

Needless to say, all mistakes are solely my fault, and comments and suggestions will be much appreciated.

Hope you – the reader, enjoy it and use it as part of a fascinating journey that I once started travelling and haven´t yet reached the end – the knowledge of Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis.

Let’s go!

Monica Barros, D.Sc.

January 2012