The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs

DOI10.4169/MATH.MAG.85.2.141zbMath1246.60018OpenAlexW156628873MaRDI QIDQ2911558

Mark F. Schilling

Publication date: 31 August 2012

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.85.2.141

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value distributionGumbel distributionBernoulli trialslongest runsapproximate lengthpredictability of the length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50)

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