TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mlodinow,Leonard
TI  - The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives 
SN  - 9780307275172
AV  - QA 273 M685d 2009
U1  - 519.2 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Random variables
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Chance
KW  - Variables aleatorias
KW  - Probabilidades
N1  - Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index; Peering through the eyepiece of randomness -- The  laws of truths and half-truths -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities -- Tracking the pathways to success -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers -- False positives and positive fallacies -- Measurement and the law of errors -- The order in chaos --  Illusions of patterns and patterns of illusion -- The drunkard's walk
N2  - An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize
ER  -