Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

We consider a one-dimensional simple random walk surviving among a field of static soft obstacles: each time it meets an obstacle the walk is killed with probability 1 − e−β, where β is a positive and ...

Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work. Probability is a mathematical framework ...

A new study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. A new LMU study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. How ...