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Chapter 5: Probabilistic Analysis and Randomized Algorithms

This chapter introduces probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of probability theory, you should read Sections C.1-C.4 of Appendix C, which review this material. We’ll revisit probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms several times throughout this book.

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5.15.1 The hiring problem
5.25.2 The Bernoulli and Binomial Distributions
5.35.3 The Hypergeometric Distributions
5.45.4 The Poisson Distributions