Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE PROBABILITY IN ACTION
- 1 Probability questions
- 2 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
5 - Probability and statistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE PROBABILITY IN ACTION
- 1 Probability questions
- 2 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 Probability , pp. 142 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012