Search
The Way of the Software Engineer

Archive for the 'probability' Category

Conditional Independence

Posted by admin on February 28th, 2008

An honest man is flipping a fair coin. After flipping ‘heads’ seven times in a row, a banker walks up and offers the honest man a bet of $50 if the next flip is ‘heads’. The banker hasn’t seen the previous seven flips. Should the honest man take the bet? More importantly, do the previous [...]