continuously continuing review
Yesterday I crammed a chapter on continuous probability distributions. Let's see what I can remember before I open the book again.
Posts about actuary
death is failure
In the probability of discrete events like coin tosses, you usually write $p$ to represent the probability of a success and $q=1-p$ to represent the probability of failure.
discretely distributed
Made it through chapter 5 of Hassett and Stewart, which details six discrete probability distributions whose properties I would like to be able to commit to memory. For each, where $X=k$ is the random variable where $k$ events are drawn from the distribution, the probability mass function, expectation value, and variance are as below.
gathering reference material
Let's pull the list of probability textbooks from yesterday's post and see where they're available.