Difficult endgame decisions in Pineapple Open Face Chinese (POFC) are quite common, and it can be quite a challenge to choose the play that offers the highest expected value. The most difficult aspect ...

Expert judgment elicitation is often required in probabilistic decision making and the evaluation of risk. One measure of the quality of probability distributions given by experts is calibration-the ...

When designing programs or software for the implementation of Monte Carlo (MC) hypothesis tests, we can save computation time by using sequential stopping boundaries. Such boundaries imply stopping ...

After previously discussing permutations, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses step-by-step examples and full code presentations to explore combinations. A zero-based mathematical (n, k) ...

The pharmaceutical research that makes the news tends to focus on single "blockbuster" drugs. Some of the most effective therapies, in contrast, are combinations of drugs. These combinations can often ...