The Matching Problem - Interactive Resource

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Part of the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics. This link is to the extensive expository material which in turn links to associated applet material. A proof for the number of derangements is given. Examples and applications are given. In the linked experiment, the number of objects can be set from 2 to 20. The distribution, mean and variance is given. A simulation can be run for the experiment.

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http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/urn/Matching.html

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Univariate Distributions

Elementary Probability

Probability

Statistics and Probability

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