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The Importance of a Game

by Mark F. Schilling (California State University, Northridge)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
October, 1994

Subject classification(s): Probability | Statistics and Probability
Applicable Course(s): 7.2 Probability | 2.6 Math Liberal Arts

Probabilistic analysis of the importance of a game in a series of games in a competition

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Capsule Course Topic(s): Probability | Joint, Marginal, Conditional Distributions

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