Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE PROBABILITY IN ACTION
- 1 Probability questions
- 2 The law of large numbers and simulation
- 3 Probabilities in everyday life
- 4 Rare events and lotteries
- 5 Probability and statistics
- 6 Chance trees and Bayes' rule
- PART TWO ESSENTIALS OF PROBABILITY
- Appendix Counting methods and ex
- Recommended reading
- Answers to odd-numbered problems
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Probabilities in everyday life
from PART ONE - PROBABILITY IN ACTION
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE PROBABILITY IN ACTION
- 1 Probability questions
- 2 The law of large numbers and simulation
- 3 Probabilities in everyday life
- 4 Rare events and lotteries
- 5 Probability and statistics
- 6 Chance trees and Bayes' rule
- PART TWO ESSENTIALS OF PROBABILITY
- Appendix Counting methods and ex
- Recommended reading
- Answers to odd-numbered problems
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Understanding ProbabilityChance Rules in Everyday Life, pp. 73 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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