Category: Probability & Statistics

Monty Hall was a Canadian television and radio personality, best known for being the long running host of the popular game show Let’s Make a Deal. One of the games that was frequently featured...

When we use statistics to analyze data, we often use mean (to find center) and standard deviation (to find spread). It is important to understand how standard deviation applies to data values that...

Probability depends on the event we wish to observe and the conditions of the scenario.  It may also depend on related events and their probabilities. So, what affects probability? ...

You have a big standardized exam on Saturday, but you’re not prepared. Suppose you decide that you’re going to randomly guess on every problem on this multiple choice exam. You didn’t study...

Data, data, data. Our world is filled with data!!! Browse through news sites and you’ll likely find charts, graphs, pictograms etc. describing all kinds of phenomena in our world that’s filled...

At an early age, you probably learned about the mean, median, and mode - favorite topics among standardized tests! Perhaps in high school you also learned about standard deviation and...