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Chance rules : an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics
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Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
A Brief History of Chance
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Chapter 2
What Are the Chances? Assigning Probabilities
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Chapter 3
Choice and Chance; Permutations and Combinations
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Chapter 4
Tossing Coins and Having Babies
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Chapter 5
Rolling Dice
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Chapter 6
Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools
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Chapter 7
Serious Gambling: Roulette, Cards and Horse Racing
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Chapter 8
Balls, Birthdays and Coincidences
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Chapter 9
Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
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Chapter 10
Puzzling Probabilities
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Chapter 11
Taking Risks
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Chapter 12
Statistics, Statisticians and Medicine
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Chapter 13
Alternative Therapies—Panaceas or Placebos?
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Chapter 14
What Does the Future Hold?
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Chapter 15
Chance, Chaos and Chromosomes
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institutions with syllabi
Citations
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Book overview
1. A Brief History of Chance
2. What Are the Chances? Assigning Probabilities
3. Choice and Chance; Permutations and Combinations
4. Tossing Coins and Having Babies
5. Rolling Dice
6. Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools
7. Serious Gambling: Roulette, Cards and Horse Racing
8. Balls, Birthdays and Coincidences
9. Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
10. Puzzling Probabilities
11. Taking Risks
12. Statistics, Statisticians and Medicine
13. Alternative Therapies—Panaceas or Placebos?
14. What Does the Future Hold?
15. Chance, Chaos and Chromosomes
Summary
Syllabi
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Course subject areas covered
Marist College
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Georg-August Universität Göttingen
1
Performing Arts
Unknown
4
Psychology