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    Investigating and Expanding the Monty Hall Problem ___________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Page 3 Introduction _____________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 Page 5 Analyzing the problem _____________________________________________________________________

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    other women experience high levels of distress that caregivers have deemed a moderate level of pain. Accordingly, some birthing mothers under value the pains of labor and are not equipped to cope with it. The process of delivering a baby is a life changing event for women. Childbirth is a natural endeavor. Women have been giving birth for thousands of years. A women’s anatomy and physiology is designed for the birthing process. According to Weatherspoon (2011), “Adequate preparation, education, and

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    Benford’s Law and where it came from? According to Oxford dictionary, Benford’s law is the principle that in any large, randomly produced set of natural numbers, such as tables of logarithms or corporate sales statistics, around 30 percent will begin with the digit 1, 18 percent with 2, and so on, with the smallest percentage beginning with 9. The law is applied in analyzing the validity of statistics and financial records. Benford’s law is a mathematical theory of leading digits that was discovered

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    A Life Changing Event When I turned twelve years old, I found out that my grandmother had Lyme disease. I realized that she was sick and it hurt me to the core. My grandmother, the healthiest woman I know, never was sick so it was hard to process that she had Lyme Disease. Even though my grandmother disease caused so much pain in my life, this life changing event taught me to find inner strength, look at the positive things in life, and that life is precious, so enjoy it. Although

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    There are many controversial ideas regarding the events that occurred to Pi while on the lifeboat after surviving the sinking ship. Some are bias to the idea that many miracles, such as, a bengal tiger saving Pi from french sailor in attempt to eat him while he was temporarily blind were the actual events of his journey. Others are aware to the fact that some of these events are delusional, and nearly impossible. I do not believe anything that Pi indicated happened on the lifeboat because, it is

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    Question 1: Sample space: a list of all possible outcomes of the random experiment Event: a collection or set of one or more simple events in a sample space Probability of an event: the sum of the probabilities of the simple events Random experiment: an action or process that leads to one of several possible outcomes The first step in the process of assigning probabilities is to produce a list of the outcomes. The list of outcomes must be exhaustive, which means all possible outcomes must be

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    According to the Investopedia, “When an individual erroneously believes that the onset of a certain random event is less likely to happen following an event or a series of events. This line of thinking is incorrect because past events do not change the probability that certain events will occur in the future.” Gambler’s Fallacy is about our incorrect thinking of predicting what will happen next by the events happened before or the previous probability. For example, I did a coin toss for 10 times and I got

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    cause chaos. Another reason why people might say that America is an improbable idea is because, the idea of numerous groups of people coming together into one country might be thought of as disorder but in reality, America succeeds through devastating events of terrorism and common religious beliefs, for the majority of the people, despite being an “improbable idea.” America succeeds through common religious beliefs of citizens. In Lincoln’s second inaugural address, he states that the majority of American

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    and it is important to ask the rate of false positives for diagnostic tests. People must know how false positive rate compares to the true prevalence of disease, and when assessing test results need to know if u, r in a high-risk group. From the event, it is obvious that the fallacy ignores false positive rate.

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    Rainfall induced landslide probability mapping for central province 1Edward H. Waithaka, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Geomatic Engineering & Geospatial Information Systems. P.o. Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya Email: hunja@eng.jkuat.ac.ke 2 Thomas G. Ngigi Email: tomngigi@hotmail.com 3Mercy W. Mwaniki, Email: mercimwaniki@yahoo.com Abstract Rainfall induced landslide hazards in Kenya represents a major challenge and remain an important issue in disaster

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