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Chance rules : an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics /
"Chance continues to govern our lives in the 21st Century. From the genes we inherit and the environment into which we are born, to the lottery ticket we buy at the local store, much of life is a gamble. In business, education, travel, health, and marriage, we take chances in the hope of obtain...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Springer,
2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A brief history of chance
- What are the chances? Assigning probabilities
- Choice and chance; permutations and combinations
- Tossing coins and having babies
- Rolling dice
- Gambling for fun: lotteries and football pools
- Serious gambling: roulette, cards and horse racing
- Balls, birthdays and coincidences
- Conditional probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
- Puzzling probabilities
- Taking risks
- Statistics, statisticians and medicine
- Alternative therapies- panaceas or placebos?
- What does the future hold?
- Chance, chaos and chromosomes.