What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K....
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K....
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K. Holland.
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Publisher
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
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N519.2/36
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English
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Physical content
xi, 141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Roulette Wheels and the Plague -- 2. Surely Something's Wrong with You -- 3. The Life Table: You Can Bet on It! -- 4. The Rarest Events -- 5. The Waiting Game -- 6. Stockbrokers and Climate Change.
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Publisher
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2002.
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"Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller Bart K. Holland takes us on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving together tales from real life - from the spread of the bubonic plague in medieval Europe or the number of Prussian cavalrymen kicked to death by their horses...
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What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K. Holland.
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Includes index.
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c2002.
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N519.2/36
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74VvBP82Ajyl
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ISBN
0801869412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801869419 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801869412 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780801869419 :
0801869412 :
9780801869419 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
519.2
MMS ID
991016332589702626
