The pleasures of probability /
| Основен автор: | Isaac, Richard. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Springer-Verlag,
c1995.
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| Серия: |
Undergraduate texts in mathematics. Readings in mathematics.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Publisher description Table of contents only |
Съдържание:
- Cars, goats, and sample spaces
- How to count: birthdays and lotteries
- Conditional probability: from kings to prisoners
- The formula of Thomas Bayes and other matters
- The idea of independence, with applications
- A little bit about games
- Random variables, expectations, and more about games
- Baseball cards, the law of large numbers, and bad news for gamblers
- From traffic to chocolate chip cookies with the Poisson Distribution
- The desperate case of the gambler's ruin
- Breaking sticks, tossing needles, and more: probability on continuous sample spaces
- Normal distributions, and order from diversity via the central limit theorem
- Random numbers: what they are and how to use them
- Computers and probability
- Statistics: applying probability to make decisions
- Roaming the number line with a Markov chain: dependence
- The Brownian motion, and other processes in continuous time.