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Matthew Skala's academic publications

Bibliographic information and links. (31 December 2009)

Hypergeometric tail inequalities: ending the insanity

Here are some notes I prepared on hypergeometric tail inequalities (PDF format, necessary for the math notation). I needed this information for something I was doing, it was hard to find in any comprehensible form on the Net, so once I found it I wrote up a better version both for my own use and for anyone else looking for the same thing. Many of the most popular pages on my site came about that way.

(22 March 2009)

The Sultan's daughters

Today when I was supposed to be working on my thesis, I got sidetracked thinking about the Sultan and his daughters. I took a look around the Net and didn't immediately find anything about this in the literature, so there's some possibility it may even be an original research problem. I'm posting it here because I think it's interesting and to see if any readers have ideas on it. Let me know if you're aware of anything published about it or if you think there isn't any and want to be in on trying to actually do some real research. Posting in "software" because I don't really have a "math" category... but maybe I should. If it appears to be an open problem, I might even post a bounty on it. (20 October 2007)