At the height of the Covie-19 pandemic, Mark Lampert and his coauthors compared the search for a therapeutic agent to the need to take lots of shots on the goal in low scoring games like soccer and hockey. Although each shot hak low probability, when you take many, the laws of probability predict eventual success. They note that there are about 100 drugs now being tested. "With so many shots on goal. if each of these candidates has even a 5 percent chance of success, the probability that at least one impactful drug emerges is over 99 percent." [R306] (a) Why do the authors believe that the probability that all the drugs falls is (1 - 0.05) 100, (b) Evaluate that expression and confirm that there is more tha

At the height of the Covie-19 pandemic, Mark Lampert and his coauthors compared the search for a therapeutic agent to the need to take lots of shots on the goal in low scoring games like soccer and hockey. Although each shot hak low probability, when you take many, the laws of probability predict eventual success. They note that there are about 100 drugs now being tested. "With so many shots on goal. if each of these candidates has even a 5 percent chance of success, the probability that at least one impactful drug emerges is over 99 percent." [R306] (a) Why do the authors believe that the probability that all the drugs falls is (1 - 0.05) 100, (b) Evaluate that expression and confirm that there is more tha

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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