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How many cards, until the first ace: variations, extensions, lachrymae, confidence, Dirichlets
Nils Lid Hjort
From a deck of cards, how many cards do I need to draw, until the first ace? I identify the distribution for this waiting time , and its satisfyingly nice expected value ${\rm E…
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Sudoku Solving and Finding Magic Squares by Probability Models and Markov Chains
Nils Lid Hjort
The sudoku puzzles have a long history, with variations going back more than a hundred years, but its current and perhaps surprising world-wide prominence goes back to certain init…
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Philosophical foundations of statistics
Inge G. Helland, Nils Lid Hjort, Gunnar Taraldsen
The philosophical foundations of statistics involve issues in theoretical statistics, such as goals and methods to meet these goals, and interpretation of the meaning of inference…