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Quant Reasoning
A Short Primer on the Birthday Paradox
A short introduction to the birthday paradox with comments on a recent application in DNA matching.
From: lukeo
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
A 4-page paper from 2007 which sets out to debunk the "urban legend" that most of the people who have ever lived are alive today.
From: lukeo
A Quantitative Time Series Analysis of Malware and Vulnerability Trends, Crai...
This is a long and thorough presentation from 2006 by Craig S. Wright on analysing malware & vulnerability data. You will need to download the ppt to see the extensive speaker notes.
From: lukeo
A Hazard Model for Tornado occurrence in the US
A paper on Monte Carlo (MC) modeling of tornado occurrence in the US. The paper shows how to work through from data, to modeling via MC to produce results.
From: lukeo
Methods for Studying Coincidences
PERSl DlACONlS and FREDERICK MOSTELLER, This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case stu...
From: lukeo
NIST Statistical Test Suite for Pseudorandom Number Generators
A large collection of statistical tests from NIST for verifying the properties of random number generators and their applications (updated 2008).
From: lukeo
How Unlucky is 25 Sigma?
A discussion around the likelihood of a 25 sigma event associated with the sub-prime crisis.
From: lukeo
