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Everyday probability and statistics : health, elections, gambling and war /
Probability and statistics impinge on the life of the average person in a variety of ways - as is suggested by the title of this book. Very often, information is provided that is factually accurate but intended to present a biased view. This book presents the important results of probability and sta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Probability
- 1.1. Probability and Everyday Speech
- 1.2. Spinning a Coin
- 1.3. Throwing or Spinning Other Objects
- Problems 1
- Chapter 2 Combining Probabilities
- 2.1. Eitheror Probability
- 2.2. Bothand Probability
- 2.3. Genetically Inherited Disease 8212; Just Gene Dependent
- 2.4. Genetically Dependent Disease 8212; Gender Dependent
- 2.5. A Dice Game 8212;American Craps
- Problems 2
- Chapter 3 A Day at the Races
- 3.1. Kinds of Probability
- 3.2. Betting on a Horse
- 3.3. The Best Conditions for a Punter
- Problem 3
- Chapter 4 Making Choices and Selections
- 4.1. Children Leaving a Room
- 4.2. Picking a Team
- 4.3. Choosing an Email Username
- 4.4. The UK National Lottery
- Problems 4
- Chapter 5 Non-Intuitive Examples of Probability
- 5.1. The Birthday Problem
- 5.2. Crown and Anchor
- 5.3. To Switch or Not to Switch 8212; That is the Question
- Problems 5
- Chapter 6 Probability and Health
- 6.1. Finding the Best Treatment
- 6.2. Testing Drugs
- Problems 6
- Chapter 7 Combining Probabilities; The Craps Game Revealed
- 7.1. A Simple Probability Machine
- 7.2. Pontoon 8212;A Card Game
- 7.3. The Throwers Chance of Winning at American Craps
- Problems 7
- Chapter 8 The UK National Lottery, Loaded Dice, and Crooked Wheels
- 8.1. The Need to Test for Fairness
- 8.2. Testing Random Numbers
- 8.3. The UK National Lottery
- 8.4. American Craps with Loaded Dice
- 8.5. Testing for a Loaded Die
- 8.6. The Roulette Wheel
- Problems 8
- Chapter 9 Block Diagrams
- 9.1. Variation in Almost Everything
- 9.2. A Shoe Manufacturer
- 9.3. Histogram Shapes
- 9.4. Lofty and Shorty
- Problem 9
- Chapter 10 The Normal (or Gaussian) Distribution
- 10.1. Probability Distributions
- 10.2. The Normal Distribution
- 10.3. The Variance and Standard Deviation
- 10.4. Properties of Normal Distributions
- 10.5. A Little Necessary Mathematics
- 10.5.1. Some Special Numbers
- 10.5.2. Powers of Numbers
- 10.6. The Form of the Normal Distribution
- 10.7. Random and Systematic Errors
- 10.8. Some Examples of the Normal Distribution
- 10.8.1. Electric Light Bulbs
- 10.8.2. People on Trolleys and Under-Used Resources
- Problems 10
- Chapter 11 Statistics8212;The Collection and Analysis of Numerical Data
- 11.1. Too Much Information
- 11.2. Another Way of Finding the Variance
- 11.3. From Regional to National Statistics
- Problems 11
- Chapter 12 The Poisson Distribution and Death by Horse Kicks
- 12.1. Rare Events
- 12.2. Typing a Manuscript
- 12.3. The Poisson Distribution as a Formula
- 12.4. Death by Horse Kicks
- 12.5. Some Other Examples of the Poisson Distribution
- 12.5.1. Flying Bomb Attacks on London
- 12.5.2. Clustering of a Disease
- 12.5.3. Some Further Examples
- Problems 12
- Chapter 13 Predicting Voting Patterns
- 13.1. Election Polls
- 13.2. Polling Statistics
- 13.3. Combining Polling Samples
- 13.4. Polling with More than Two Parties
- 13.5. Factors Affecting Polls and Voting
- Problems 13
- Chapter 14 Taking Samples8212;How Many Fish in the Pond?
- 14.1. Why do we Sample?
- 14.2. F.