Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

This note suggests that expressing a distribution function as a mixture of suitably chosen distribution functions leads to improved methods for generating random variables in a computer. The idea is ...

The first step is to ensure that the given distribution actually is a valid probability distribution. As mentioned earlier, ...

Explain why probability is important to statistics and data science. See the relationship between conditional and independent events in a statistical experiment. Calculate the expectation and variance ...

Ivan Bajic (ibajic at ensc.sfu.ca) Office hours: Monday and Wednesday, 13:00-14:00 online (Zoom, see the link in course materials) Introduction to the theories of probability and random variables, and ...

For stationary isotropic random functions on a Euclidean space, we characterize and compare the mean values of certain geometric measures of the smoothness of realizations. In particular we examine ...