Book:
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Editors:
Vere-Jones, D., Carlyle, S., & Dawkins, B. P.
Type:
Category:
Volume:
2
Pages:
122-132
Year:
1991
Publisher:
International Statistical Institute
Place:
Voorburg, Netherlands
Abstract:
I have selected the stated problem which may be found in Takacs (1960,p.21) with a brief reference to statistical mechanics, for several reasons: its source is an important test used by many engineering students; the problem lends itself well to illustrate the ideas on imagination presented in this paper and, with imagination unfettered, it can serve to generate quite exciting purely mathematical questions.
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