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ProbabilityThe Science of Uncertainty
Geoffrey Grimmett
Forder Lecturer, LMS and NZMS
April 2012
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Titanic, 1912
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An iceberg
∼90% below sea-level
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Titanic, 15 April 1912
1,517 (of 2,223) people died
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James Cameron gave us the movie
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Probability?
What is the probabilityof the Titanic sinking?
Guide: a number between 0 and 1,with 0 meaning ‘impossible’, and 1 ‘certain’
Is it 1?
Is it 1/10? 1/1,000,000?
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What is the probability
of the Titanic sinking?
• what does the question mean?
• what are the assumptions?
• the ‘covered coin’?
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‘Facts’
• beam = 30m
• in iceberg ‘infested’ waters for ∼ 100km
• inadequate watch
• there existed icebergs
• about 2250 people on board
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Question and Assumption
Question: What is the probability
of striking a large iceberg?
Assumption: Bergs are distributed at random
NOT: probability of sinking/rescue etc
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Route through icebergs
route
bergs
• how many large icebergs?
• where are they?
• probability there is one intersecting the grey zone?
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Poisson process
area a
A
Drop points into area A at random
Density = m points/unit area
P(k points in area a
)=
(ma)ke−ma
k!, k = 0, 1, 2, . . .
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Simeon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
“Life is good for only two things, discoveringmathematics and teaching mathematics.”
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The calculationConsider icebergs with diameter 100 m
100 km
130 m
XXXXXXXXXXXdiameter#/deg2
1 10
100m1
8003
1
8030
150m1
5005
1
5050
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Discussion
• modelling assumptions
• input values
• robustness
• meaning of small probabilities
• chance/loss analysis
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Titanic disaster foretold!
Bible, New Testament, King James edition
1611 < 1912
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The Bible Codes
(1994) Eliyahu Rips, Doron Witztum
found names etc of 34 rabbis (as yet unborn) in the Torah
(1994) Michael Drosnin
found ASSASSIN WILL ASSASSINATE YITZHAK RABIN
(1995) Rabin assassinated
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Source material
spelling?multiplicities?
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The Sun
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Furore!
A. The Torah as the home of all truth. All shall be revealed.
B. What are the assumptions, where is the rigour?
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Drosnin’s challenge
“When my critics find a message about theassassination of a prime minister encrypted inMoby Dick, I’ll believe them” [Newsweek, 9June 1997]
etc, etc [Brendan MacKay]
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Energy vs Entropy
Alphabet size A
Word length L
1/Energy: P(specific instance of word
)≈
(1
A
)L
small
Entropy: Number of possible instances N large
mean number of occurrences ∼ N
(1
A
)L
If N ∼ AL, then occurrence is not surprisingBlind Watchmaker (Paley/Dawkins), Physics
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Probability ratio
P(occurs | random)
P(occurs | intelligent design)≈ E (# occurrences | random)
1
≈ NA−L
1
Relative likelihood under different hypotheses:
DNA profiling, courtroom evidence, false positives
Conditional probability?
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Science of probability
Experiment : coin flip
die throw
horse race
stock market
Outcomes : have probabilities
Ω (sample space)
ω
Probability P (ω)
A (event)
P (A)
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Example: two coin flips
Ω = HH,HT,TH,TTP(ω) = p2, p(1− p), (1− p)p, (1− p)2
Assumptions: same coin
independence of outcomes
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Probabilities
ABSOLUTE
P(A) = Probability that A occurs
CONDITIONAL
P(A | B) = Probability of A given that B occurs
Definition of conditional probability
P(A | B) =P(A and B)
P(B)
history, Pascal/Fermat
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Accumulation of evidence in law
I := innocence
G := guilt
E1,E2, . . . := pieces of evidence E
Likelihood/probability ratio:
P(evidence | G )
P(evidence | I )= λ
“Prosecutor’s fallacy”: CONVICT if λ is largeλ ≈ 106, 1012, 1018?
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How large?
P(G | evidence) = P(evidence | G )× P(G )
P(evidence)
Relevant ratio:
P(G | evidence)
P(I | evidence)= λ× P(G )
1− P(G )
≈ λ× 1
number N of possible perpetrators
Conclusion: λ must be much bigger than Ndisputed paternity
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Conditional probability
Lewis Carroll ‘proved’ that, if an urn contains two balls, each eitherred or blue, then one is red and one is blue.
P(RR) = P(RB) = P(BR) = P(BB) = 14
Add a red ball:
P(RRR) = P(RRB) = P(RBR) = P(RBB) = 14
P(random ball is red) = 1 · 14 + 23 ·
14 + 2
3 ·14 + 1
3 ·14 = 2
3
Conclusion: Must have RRB, so originally RB.
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Family planning
A family has two children.
What is the probability that both are boys, given that one is a boy?
An ill-posed question
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Prisoner (Monty Hall) problem
Three prisoners, A, B, C, are in separate cells and sentenced todeath. The governor has selected one of them at random to bepardoned. The warder knows which one is to be pardoned, but isnot allowed to tell that person. Prisoner A asks the warder theidentity of one of the others who is going to be executed.
The warder tells A that B is to be executed.
Without information: P(A pardoned) = 13
With information: P(A pardoned) = 13 ,
12?
Another ill-posed question
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Two ‘modern’ applications
A. Mathematical finance
B. Ising model for magnetism
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Brownian motion (∼ 1827)
Robert Brown (1773–1858)
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BM in one dimension
continuous, non-differentiable function, Gaussian law
‘totally random motion’, fractal structure,
modelling tool (finance, Black–Scholes etc)
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Bonds and stocks
bonds: Mt at time tMt = ert
stocks: St at time t
dSt = St(µdt + σdBt)
European stock option: buy one unit of stock at future time T forprice K .
Question: What is this option worth?
Assume absence of arbitrage: no risk-free profits are available
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Black–Scholes formula
Theorem
The value of the European stock option at time t (< T) is theknown function Vt(St , r ,K , . . . )
Proof.
Uses the beautiful Cameron–Martin–Girsanov ‘change of measure’formula.
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Energy vs entropy in physics
Pierre Curie: Iron retains its magnetism only at temperatures
T < Tc
Critical temperature: Tc ≈ 770 deg C
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Ising model (1925)
number of molecules ∼ 1023 = N, Avogadro’s number
number of configurations ∼ 2N , large entropy
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Hamiltonian/energy
Hamiltonian: configuration σ has (large) energy H(σ)= total length of interfaces
probability of configuration Ce−H(σ)/T , tiny
Balance entropy/energy, to prove results about the model
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Maths of ferromagnetism
Existence of critical point
T > Tc : external field is forgotten
T < Tc : external field is remembered
Near criticality, T ≈ Tc : singularity of power-typecritical exponentsuniversalityconfomality in two dimensions
Proofs: (2D) Onsager (1944) . . . Smirnov (2011) +(3D)?
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What are dice?
A die is a small polkadotted cube made of ivory and trained like alawyer to lie on the wrong side (Ambrose Bierce, 1911)
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