Talk:List of probability topics

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Contents 1 List updater 1.1 A: Articles missing from the List of probability topics 1.2 B: Place here articles not wanted either in the List of probability topics or in subsection A. 1.3 C: Categories to be searched 1.4 D: Potential searchable categories 1.5 E: Articles in List of probability topics not in categories 1.6 Organize the list 2 Remarks

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[edit] A: Articles missing from the List of probability topics

(a,b,0) class of distributions -- Allais paradox -- Anderson's theorem -- Anscombe transform -- Bapat-Beg theorem -- Bayesian model comparison -- Bernstein inequalities (probability theory) -- Berry–Esséen theorem -- Binomial probability -- Birthday problem -- Carleman's condition -- Checking if a coin is fair -- Chernoff bound -- Chernoff bounds -- Classical definition of probability -- Coefficient of variation -- Coherence (statistics) -- Collectively exhaustive events -- Conditional event algebra -- Conditional probability distribution -- Conditional random field -- Condorcet's jury theorem -- Conductance (probability) -- Conjugate prior -- Contact process (mathematics) -- Contiguity -- Continuous probability distribution -- Contraction principle (large deviations theory) -- Coupon collector's problem (generating function approach) -- Covariance function -- Cramér's theorem -- Cue validity -- D distribution -- Detailed balance -- Discrete probability distribution -- Disintegration theorem -- Dobinski's formula -- Donsker's theorem -- Doomsday argument -- Dynkin system -- Empirical measure -- Empirical process -- Entropy power inequality -- Equipossible -- Equiprobable -- Etemadi's inequality -- Exchangeable random variables -- Expected gain -- Expected return -- Factor graph -- Factorial moment generating function -- Fano factor -- Fuzzy measure theory -- Gamma variate -- Gaussian isoperimetric inequality -- Gaussian random field -- Gibbs state -- Glivenko-Cantelli theorem -- Good-Turing frequency estimation -- Goodman-Nguyen-van Fraassen algebra -- Hamburger moment problem -- Hann function -- Hausdorff moment problem -- Heavy-tailed distribution -- Hellinger distance -- Helly–Bray theorem -- Heston model -- Hoeffding's inequality -- Impossible event -- Imprecise probability -- Improbability -- Inclusion-exclusion principle -- Independent and identically-distributed random variables -- Indicator function -- Infinite divisibility (probability) -- Infinite monkey theorem -- Information geometry -- Integration of the normal density function -- Inverse probability -- Joint probability distribution -- Kelly criterion -- Khintchine inequality -- Kirkwood approximation -- Kolmogorov's inequality -- Laplace principle (large deviations theory) -- Large deviations of Gaussian random functions -- Large deviations theory -- Law of Truly Large Numbers -- Law of large numbers -- Leftover hash-lemma -- Limiting density of discrete points -- List of convolutions of probability distributions -- List of mathematical probabilists -- Littlewood's law -- Littlewood-Offord problem -- Location-scale family -- Logmoment generating function -- Lovász local lemma -- Luce's choice axiom -- Lyapunov's central limit theorem -- Lévy continuity theorem -- Lévy metric -- Lévy's convergence theorem -- Lévy-Prokhorov metric -- Marginal likelihood -- Markov blanket -- Markov chain mixing time -- Markov logic network -- Markov network -- Master equation -- Mathematics of bookmaking -- Maximal ergodic theorem -- McDiarmid's inequality -- Mean difference -- Method of moments (probability theory) -- Multiscale decision making -- Nonextensive entropy -- Normal sequence -- Nuisance variable -- Numerical parameter -- Paley–Zygmund inequality -- Panjer recursion -- Pareto index -- Partition function (mathematics) -- Pignistic probability -- Point process -- Poisson random measure -- Polar distribution -- Power law -- Probabilistic argumentation -- Probabilistic encryption -- Probabilistic logic -- Probability distribution function -- Probability vector -- Problem of points -- Propensity probability -- Pseudocount -- Quantile -- Quantile function -- Quantum Markov chain -- Quantum probability -- Random coil -- Random compact set -- Random element -- Rate function -- Renewal theory -- Ruin theory -- SIPTA -- Sampling equiprobably with dice -- Scale parameter -- Schuette–Nesbitt formula -- Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal -- Shape parameter -- Skorokhod's representation theorem -- Slutsky's theorem -- Standard probability space -- Statistical interference -- Stein's lemma -- Stieltjes moment problem -- Subjective logic -- Subjectivism -- Sunrise problem -- Survival function -- Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace -- Tilted large deviation principle -- Trigonometric moment problem -- Truncated distribution -- Tsallis entropy -- Uniform integrability -- Unit measure -- Upper and lower probabilities -- Varadhan's lemma -- Variable-order Markov model -- Variance-to-mean ratio -- Vitale's random Brunn-Minkowski inequality -- Wasserstein metric -- Zero-one law --

I shall attend to the above soon! Michael Hardy 19:04, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, very soon! :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 19:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] B: Place here articles not wanted either in the List of probability topics or in subsection A.

[edit] C: Categories to be searched

The bot will look for potential additions to the List of probability topics in this list of categories. You may add any other categories to this list, for example from subsection D below. Use the format [[:Category:XXX]] (the colon (:) shows up twice!).

Category:Probability theory

[edit] D: Potential searchable categories

Move up to subsection C any categories which the bot should search for missing articles in the List of probability topics.

Category:Covariance and correlation -- Category:Probability distributions -- Category:Probability theorists -- Category:Probability theory paradoxes -- Category:Statistical deviation and dispersion -- Category:Stochastic processes --

[edit] E: Articles in List of probability topics not in categories

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Statistical theory -- Constant random variable -- Punnett square -- Normal distribution -- Kullback-Leibler divergence -- Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics -- Chi-square distribution -- The Doctrine of Chances -- Wiener equation -- Hadwiger's theorem -- Buffon's needle -- Aleatoric -- Metropolis algorithm -- Queueing theory -- Pachinko -- Autoregressive integrated moving average model -- Betting -- Zeta distribution -- Correlation function -- Zipf's law -- Applied probability -- Stability (probability) -- Phase-type distribution -- Lottery machine -- Extractor -- Hardy-Weinberg principle -- Brownian motion -- Jensen's inequality -- Edgeworth series -- Poker probability (Texas hold 'em) -- Spurious relationship -- Financial mathematics -- Stochastic process -- Statistical unit -- Risk -- List of statistical topics -- Law of the iterated logarithm -- Market risk -- Erlang distribution -- Branching process -- Bias (statistics) -- Integral geometry -- Cantor distribution -- Fermi-Dirac statistics -- Poker probability (Omaha) -- Hidden Markov model -- Negative binomial distribution -- Standard deviation -- Relative frequency -- Physics -- Probabilistic Turing machine -- Markov property -- Lévy distribution -- Gamma distribution -- Bayesianism -- Estimator -- Time series analysis -- Edwin Thompson Jaynes -- Probability amplitude -- Degenerate distribution -- Geometric standard deviation -- Conditional distribution -- Gauss-Markov process -- Continuous-time Markov process -- Multivariate normal distribution -- Probable prime -- The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo -- Parimutuel betting -- Standardized moment -- Confidence interval -- Exponential family -- Multinomial distribution -- Fisher-Tippett distribution -- Bookmaker -- Lévy process -- Index of coincidence -- Bose-Einstein statistics -- Process with independent increments -- Bayesian probability -- Vacuum expectation value -- Cauchy distribution -- Parrondo's paradox -- Chapman-Kolmogorov equation -- Statistical regularity -- Bertrand's paradox (probability) -- Dirichlet distribution -- Spread betting -- Ronald Fisher -- Statistical phenomena -- Observational error -- List of probabilists -- Population process -- Data set -- Luck -- Beta distribution -- Poker probability -- Concrete illustration of the central limit theorem -- Inverse gambler's fallacy -- Adapted process -- Box-Muller transform -- Probabilistic algorithm -- ANCOVA -- Inverse transform sampling method -- Stochastic calculus -- Bernoulli scheme -- Canonical correlation -- Markovian -- Sampling (statistics) -- Gibbs sampling -- Statistical inference -- Mutual information -- Point estimation -- Lottery -- Geometric Brownian motion -- Erlang unit -- Interval estimation -- Helly-Bray theorem -- Wiener process -- Chinese restaurant process -- Random walk Monte Carlo -- Fluctuation theorem -- Principle of maximum entropy -- Volatility -- Population genetics -- Aleatoric music -- Prior probability -- Gauss-Markov theorem -- Multivariate statistics -- Pareto principle -- Weak convergence of measures -- Randomised algorithm -- Probabilistically checkable proof -- Roulette -- Discrete random variable -- Statistical physics -- Likelihood-ratio test -- Gambler's fallacy -- Margin of error -- Autoregressive moving average model -- Matrix normal distribution -- Prior probability distribution -- Wishart distribution -- Martingale (probability theory) -- Statistical model -- Ewens's sampling formula -- Random walk -- Randomization -- Hypergeometric distribution -- Pascal's wager -- Benford's law -- Statistical population -- Posterior probability -- Birthday paradox -- Berry-Esseen theorem -- Random sequence -- Total variation -- Girsanov's theorem -- Checking if a coin is biased -- Malliavin calculus -- F-distribution -- Random number generator -- Weibull distribution -- Error function -- Loop-erased random walk -- Covariance -- Levy skew alpha-stable distribution -- Probability distribution -- Negative hypergeometric distribution -- Technical analysis -- Hardware random number generator -- Bernoulli distribution -- Borel's paradox -- Exponential distribution -- Value at risk -- Las Vegas algorithm -- Moment about the mean -- Linear regression -- Mutually exclusive -- Student's t-distribution -- Maximum likelihood -- Randomness -- Stochastic programming -- Pot odds -- Pseudorandomness -- Statistical sample -- Gambling -- Gaussian process -- Instrumental variable -- Triangular distribution -- Cosmic variance -- Copula (statistics) -- Pareto distribution -- Statistics -- Null hypothesis -- Martingale representation theorem -- Examples of Markov chains -- Statistical dispersion -- Uncertainty -- Galton-Watson process -- Covariance matrix -- Genetics -- Asymptotic equipartition property -- Stationary process -- Monte Carlo method -- Statistical assembly -- Bible code -- Correlation -- Frequency probability -- Itô's lemma -- Analysis of variance -- Bernoulli process -- Progressively measurable process -- List of statisticians -- Information entropy -- Poisson process -- Feynman-Kac formula -- Laws of large numbers -- Bayesian inference -- Coin flipping -- Independent identically-distributed random variables -- Uncorrelated -- Average -- Central tendency -- Limit theorem -- Itô calculus -- Brownian ratchet -- Boltzmann factor -- Eclectic probability -- Binomial distribution -- Quasirandom -- Chance -- Factorial moment -- Urn problem -- Data point -- Lévy flight -- Poisson distribution -- Geometric distribution -- Martingale (betting system) -- Dutch book -- Locality (statistics) -- Wigner semicircle distribution --

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[edit] Organize the list

I suggest that we work on organizing the list so that it is more readable.Tindy 13:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Organizing which list, the list of probability topics itself, or the output of my bot above? The entries above are meant to be carefully read by a person and put them in the list of probability topics as appropriate. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Remarks

About removing Kolmogorov's name from the 'foundations' section here - would everyone (including Bayesians) agree that the Kolmogorov foundations are the foundations?

Charles Matthews 09:03, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Are you trying to prove that "pure" mathematicians are those who know only mathematics?? I find this astonishing. No; virtually everyone would disagree, and find the proposition astonishing (except among "pure" mathematicians who are ignorant of this topic and don't suspect that they are ignorant). For example, see Cox's theorem (that article, as it stood when I saw it a few days ago, was flawed, but it should make clear that taking additivity as axiomatic is ridiculous), and Edwin T. Jaynes. Kolmogorov's axioms pretty much ignore foundational issues. Michael Hardy 01:14, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

... and see also Bayesianism. Michael Hardy 01:17, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm sure that Pierce's Law belongs on here somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Would someone please add it to the appropriate section? FunnyMan3595 04:30, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm not so sure. That page is pure logic, as it stands. If there is probability content to the Law, it ought to be added there, really, before a link from here.

Charles Matthews 07:51, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, yeah, I see what you mean... I'll take another look at it later on, 's early in the morning, math doesn't make too much sense yet.

FunnyMan3595 15:10, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Looked at it again. No clue what I was thinking, disregard.

FunnyMan3595 20:29, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)