What Are the Chances?

Name: What Are the Chances?
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801869419
Price: 13777 HUF
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Szerző: Bart K. Holland

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistic...

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Szerző

Bart K. Holland

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

160

EAN

9780801869419

ISBN

0801869412

Enbook ID

04709170

Kiadó

Johns Hopkins University Press

Súly

364

Méretek

147 x 217 x 19

Teljes leírás

Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller Bart K. Holland takes us on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving together tales from real life-from the spread of the bubonic plague in medieval Europe or the number of Prussian cavalrymen kicked to death by their horses, through IQ test results and deaths by voodoo curse, to why you have to wait in line for rides at Disneyworld-Holland captures the reader's imagination with surprising examples of probability in action, everyday events that can profoundly affect our lives but are controlled by just one number. As Holland explains, even chance events are governed by the laws of probability and follow regular patterns called statistical laws. He shows how such laws are successfully applied, with great benefit, in fields as diverse as the insurance industry, the legal system, medical research, aerospace engineering, and climatology. Whether you have only a distant recollection of high school algebra or use differential equations every day, this book offers examples of the impact of chance that will amuse and astonish.

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