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 obtaining so...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2008 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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#x2014;Panaceas or Placebos?
- What Does the Future Hold?
- Chance, Chaos and Chromosomes