Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 10, No. 2 (October 2016), pp. 408-446 (39 pages) An associative Boolean tree is a plane rooted tree whose internal nodes are labelled by AND or OR ...

Provides a one-semester course in probability and statistics with applications in the engineering sciences. Probability of events, discrete and continuous random variables cumulative distribution, ...

Addresses the topics of probability, random variables, discrete and continuous densities, expectation and variance, special distributions (binomial, Poisson, normal, etc.), moment generating functions ...

Two events are independent if the probability of the first event happening has no impact on the probability of the second event happening. If the probability of one event happening affects the ...

Monophyletic groups—groups that consist of all of the descendants of a most recent common ancestor—arise naturally as a consequence of descent processes that result in meaningful distinctions between ...

For any event that has multiple outcomes with different probabilities, it can be helpful and illustrative to construct a chart or diagram of the possible outcomes. Tree diagrams are a useful example ...