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How are epidemic models simulated in case of mobility?
I am not a mathematician but out of curiosity I am trying to implement the SIS epidemic model when the nodes have mobility to understand how it will change the results. I understand how to perform ...
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Coin pusher game
While doing laundry at my local laundromat, I saw a coin pusher game. Below is a picture, and here is a video depicting how it works (disregard non-coins).
Essentially, one has a distribution of ...
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Estimating the probability that one Poisson RV is larger than another
Let $X$ and $Y$ be Poisson random variables with means $\lambda$ and $1$, respectively. The difference of $X$ and $Y$ is a Skellam random variable, with probability density function
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near independence of markov chain observations at high lags
I have to simulate independent draws from a very complicated distribution. They only feasible way appears to be using MCMC. I was considering running thousands of chains in parallel, but that would ...
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Martingales and Betting Strategies
Does anyone know of a good introduction to the theory of martingales and betting strategies from the point of view of statistics and/or probability theory? I'm looking for something basic, with lots ...