TY  - GEN
AU  - Starbird,Michael P.
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - What are the chances? : : probability made clear 
T2  - The Great courses
SN  - 9781598032666 (set)
AV  - LB 14.6 S795w 2006
U1  - 370 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chantilly, Virginia
PB  - The Teaching Company
KW  - Education.
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Estadística matemática
KW  - Probabilidades
N1  - Course no. 1474.
Course consists of 12 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 1 videodisc and each videodisc consists of six lectures.
Accompanying course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography; "Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Mathematics."; Disc 1: Lecture 1. Our random world--probability defined -- Lecture 2. The nature of randomness -- Lecture 3. Expected value--you can bet on it -- Lecture 4. Random thoughts on random walks -- Lecture 5. Probability phenomena of physics -- Lecture 6. Probability is in our genes -- Disc 2 : Lecture 7. Options and our financial future -- Lecture 8. Probability where we don't expect it -- Lecture 9. Probability surprises -- Lecture 10. Conundrums of conditional probability -- Lecture 11. Believe it or not--Bayesian probability -- Lecture 12. Probabilitiy everywhere
N2  - Michael Starbird, University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses probability, the study that gives meaningful numerical value to the random factors and combinations that lurk behind almost everything
ER  -