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"Taking Chances presents an entertaining and accessible guide that aims to help the reader to improve their ability to work with probabilities. By describing and analysing a wide range of situations in which chance plays a role, such as the lottery, football pools, roulette, and card games, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haigh, John, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Probabilities > Popular works.
Probabilités > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
Probabilities.
Alltag
Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Einführung
Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie.
Kansspelen.
Mathematical Statistics.
Mathematics.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Popular works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is probability?
  • Lotteries
  • Football pools, premium bonds
  • One coin, many games
  • Dice
  • Games with few choices
  • Waiting, waiting, waiting
  • Let's play best of three
  • TV games
  • Casino games
  • Bookies, the Tote, spread betting
  • This sporting life
  • Lucky for some--miscellanea
  • Appendix I. Counting
  • Appendix II. Probability
  • Appendix III. Averages and variability
  • Appendix IV. Goodness-of-fit tests
  • Appendix V. The Kelly strategy
  • Solutions to test yourself quizzes
  • Literature cited.

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