Struck by lightning : the curious world of probabilities /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Joseph Henry Press,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Surrounded by randomness: probabilities everywhere
- What are the odds of that? Coincidence and surprise
- Laying down the law: why casinos always win
- Dealing the cards: bridge, poker, and blackjack
- Murder most foul: measuring trends
- Utility functions: how to make decisions
- White lab coats: what studies do and don't show
- Ain't gonna happen: very low probabilities
- Interlude: the case of the collapsing casino
- Fifty-one percent to forty-nine percent: the true meaning of polls
- Nineteen times out of twenty: margins of error
- Randomness to the rescue: when uncertainty is your friend
- Evolution, genes, and viruses: randomness in biology
- That wily Monty Hall: finding probabilities from clues
- Spam, spam, probability, and spam: blocking unwanted e-mail
- Ignorance, chaos, and quantum mechanics: causes of randomness
- Final exam: do you have probability perspective?