| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 book guides the reader around many of the common pitfalls and controversies that surround probability."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-326) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Probabilities -- Popular works
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MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
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Probabilities
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Alltag
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Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
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Einführung
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Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie.
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Kansspelen.
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Mathematical Statistics.
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Mathematics.
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Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98039018 |
| ISBN |
0585129428 |
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9780585129426 |
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