Three Great Minds Collaborated to Shatter the Ancient Ptolemaic View

question 7

Essay

Three great minds collaborated to shatter the ancient Ptolemaic view of the universe.Note the contributions of Copernicus,Kepler,and Galileo.Who do you think made the most significant contribution? Who took the greatest risk?

Understand and apply the concept of independent events in probability.

Calculate the probability of a specific outcome given a probability distribution.

Understand and apply the Poisson distribution to model certain types of random events.

Evaluate statistical evidence to determine if an outcome is significantly unusual.

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Definitions:

Reference Instance Variable

A variable in object-oriented programming that holds the reference to an instance of an object rather than the object itself.

Logic Error

A mistake in a program's source code that results in incorrect or unintended behavior, usually difficult to detect because the program can still run.

Deep Copy

Creating a new object and also recursively copying all of the original object's nested objects, as opposed to just copying the object references.

References

In programming, references are variables or objects that point to or refer to another location in memory where data is stored.