Probability : a very short introduction / John Haigh.
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TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 310.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 128 p. ; 18 cmISBN: - 9780199588480
- Very short introductions
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- R AC 5 V573
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.
1. Fundamentals -- 2. The workings of probability -- 3. Historical sketch -- 4. Chance experiments -- 5. Making sense of probabilities -- 6. Games people play -- 7. Applications in science, medicine, and operations research -- 8. Other applications -- 9. Curiosities and dilemmas.
Introduces the ideas of probability--and the different philosophical approaches to probability--and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions and discusses a wide range of applications in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts such as games and betting. He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes.
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