% \documentclass[serif]{beamer} % Serif for Computer Modern math font. \documentclass[serif, handout]{beamer} % Handout to ignore pause statements. \hypersetup{colorlinks,linkcolor=,urlcolor=red} \usefonttheme{serif} % Looks like Computer Modern for non-math text -- nice! \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} % Suppress navigation symbols % \usetheme{Berlin} % Displays sections on top \usetheme{Frankfurt} % Displays section titles on top: Fairly thin but still swallows some material at bottom of crowded slides %\usetheme{Berkeley} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{amsmath} % for binom \usepackage{amsfonts} % for \mathbb{R} The set of reals % \usepackage{graphicx} % To include pdf files! % \definecolor{links}{HTML}{2A1B81} % \definecolor{links}{red} \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number] \mode \title{Counting Methods for Computing Probabilities\footnote{ This slide show is an open-source document. See last slide for copyright information.} \\ (Section 1.4)} \subtitle{STA 256: Fall 2019} \date{} % To suppress date \begin{document} \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} % Text Section 1.4 title \frametitle{Uniform Probability on Finite Spaces} \pause % \framesubtitle{} If the sample space is finite \pause and all outcomes of an experiment are equally likely, \pause {\Large \begin{eqnarray*} P(A) &=& \frac{\mbox{Number of ways for $A$ to happen}} {\mbox{Total number of outcomes}} \pause \\ &&\\ &=& \frac{|A|}{|S|} \end{eqnarray*} \pause } % End size \vspace{8mm} Need to count. \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{A Boring Example} \pause %\framesubtitle{} Roll a fair die. What is the probability of an odd number? \pause \begin{eqnarray*} P(\mbox{Odd}) &=& \pause P(\{1,3,5\}) \pause \\ &&\\ &=& \frac{3}{6} \pause \\ &&\\ &=& \frac{1}{2} \end{eqnarray*} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Multiplication Principle} \framesubtitle{Also called the Fundamental Principle of Counting} \pause If there are $k$ experiments and the first has $n_1$ outcomes, the second has $n_2$ outcomes, etc., \pause then there are \begin{displaymath} n_1 \times n_2 \times \cdots \times n_k \end{displaymath} outcomes in all. \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Sample Question} %\framesubtitle{} If there are nine horses in a race, in how many ways can they finish first, second and third? \pause \begin{displaymath} 9 \times 8 \times 7 = 504 \end{displaymath} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Permutations: Ordered subsets} \framesubtitle{The notation $_nP_k$ is not in the text} \pause The number of \emph{permutations} (ordered subsets) of $n$ objects taken $k$ at a time is \pause \vspace{4mm} {\Large \begin{eqnarray*} _nP_k & = & n \times (n-1) \times \cdots \times (n-k+1) \\ \pause & = & \frac{n!}{(n-k)!} \end{eqnarray*} } % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Combinations: Unordered subsets} \framesubtitle{The vocabulary ``combinations" is not in the text} \pause The number of \emph{combinations} (unordered subsets) of $n$ objects taken $k$ at a time is \pause \vspace{4mm} {\Large \begin{displaymath} \binom{n}{k} = \frac{n!}{k! \, (n-k)!} \end{displaymath} } % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Example} % \framesubtitle{} If a club has 30 members, how many ways are there to choose a committee of 5? \pause %{\LARGE \begin{eqnarray*} \binom{30}{5} & = & \frac{30!}{5!(30-5)!} \\ & & \\ & = &142,506 \end{eqnarray*} %} % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Proof of $\binom{n}{k} = \frac{n!}{k! \, (n-k)!}$} \pause % \framesubtitle{} Choose an unordered subset of $k$ items from $n$. \pause Then place them in order. \pause By the Multiplication Principle, \pause %{\LARGE \begin{eqnarray*} & & _nP_k = \pause \binom{n}{k} \times k! \\ \pause & \Rightarrow & \frac{n!}{(n-k)!} = \binom{n}{k} \times k! \\ \pause & \Rightarrow & \binom{n}{k} = \frac{n!}{k! \, (n-k)!} \end{eqnarray*} $\blacksquare$ %} % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Example} %\framesubtitle{} How many ways are there to deal a hand of 5 cards from a standard deck of 52 cards? \pause \begin{eqnarray*} \binom{52}{5} \pause & = & \frac{52!}{5! \, 47!} \pause \\ & = & 2,598,960 \end{eqnarray*} \pause \begin{itemize} \item If you could inspect one hand per second, \pause \item It would take a little over 30 days to examine them all. \pause \item Working 24/7. \pause \item The point is that these counting arguments allow you to ``count" objects that are so numerous you could not literally even look at them all. \end{itemize} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Binomial Theorem} \framesubtitle{Binomial coefficients appear in the Binomial Theorem} {\LARGE \begin{displaymath} (a+b)^n = \sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k} a^kb^{n-k} \end{displaymath} } % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Multinomial Coefficients} % \framesubtitle{Proposition C in the text} The number of ways that $n$ objects can be divided into $\ell$ subsets with $k_i$ objects in set $i$, $i = 1, \ldots,\ell$ is \vspace{2mm} \pause {\LARGE \begin{displaymath} \binom{n}{n_1~\cdots~k_\ell}=\frac{n!}{k_1!~\cdots~k_\ell!} \end{displaymath} } % End size \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Multinomial Theorem} \framesubtitle{Nice to know} {\LARGE \begin{displaymath} (x_1 + \cdots + x_\ell)^n = \sum_{\mathbf{k}} \binom{n}{k_1~\cdots~k_\ell} x_1^{k_1} \cdots x_\ell^{k_\ell} \end{displaymath} } % End size where the sum is over all non-negative integers $k_1, \ldots, k_\ell$ such that $\sum_{j=1}^\ell k_j = n$. \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \frametitle{Copyright Information} This slide show was prepared by \href{http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner}{Jerry Brunner}, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. 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