Elementary probability with applications /
"This book describes the application of probability models to real-world situations, such as cryptology, population genetics, airline management, blood testing, drug detection, jury verdicts, elections, and music composition. It explains and applies to several examples basic concepts in probabi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book describes the application of probability models to real-world situations, such as cryptology, population genetics, airline management, blood testing, drug detection, jury verdicts, elections, and music composition. It explains and applies to several examples basic concepts in probability; conditional probability and the multiplication rule; independence; combining the addition and multiplication rules; random variables, distributions, and expected values; joint distributions and conditional expectations; sampling with and without replacement; and binomial tests. No knowledge of probability is needed."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | "A Chapman & Hall book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315367149 1315367149 9781498771337 1498771335 9781315319940 1315319942 |