ENGLISH

Probability tales

By J. Laurie Snell , Charles M. Grinstead , William P. Peterson

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Year
2011
ISBN
0821852612, 978-0-8218-5261-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6193863 bytes)
Series
Student Mathematical Library 057
Pages
250\250
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2015-12-12 14:00:00
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Description

This book explores four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory. It can be used to supplement a standard text in probability or statistics. Most elementary textbooks present the basic theory and then illustrate the ideas with some neatly packaged examples. Here the authors assume that the reader has seen, or is learning, the basic theory from another book and concentrate in some depth on the following topics: streaks, the stock market, lotteries, and fingerprints. This extended format allows the authors to present multiple approaches to problems and to pursue promising side discussions in ways that would not be possible in a book constrained to cover a fixed set of topics. To keep the main narrative accessible, the authors have placed the more technical mathematical details in appendices. The appendices can be understood by someone who has taken one or two semesters of calculus

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