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UDJ TUTORIALS

Session 1

Dmitry Sumkin
INSEAD
September 2018
INSEAD cohorts are very diverse

History
Economics Physics
Literature Business Comp. science
Military Math
Law Medicine Engineering

Less math More math


INSEAD cohorts are very diverse

History
Economics Physics
Literature Business Comp. science
Military Math
Law Medicine Engineering

Less math More math


Tutorials cater to this half
of the audience
Today
• Uncertainty without distribution
• Binomial distribution
Uncertainty without distribution

• Chebyshev’s theorem:
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at least 1 − 2 proportion of observations
𝑘
fall between μ − 𝑘𝜎 and μ + 𝑘𝜎

• You can be asked about one of μ, 𝑘 or 𝜎 given other two in


the problem statement
Binomial distribution

• Number of successes in repeated trials


• Math notation: X˜ B(n,p)
• n trials
• X successes
• p each with probability of success
• Calculate using your tables or use the formula

• Important properties:
m = np s = np(1- p)

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