Taking Chances
winning with probability
$35.40
- Paperback
388 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2003
Summary
Taking Chances: A Guide to Understanding Probability and Making Smarter Decisions
What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance, following medical advice, carrying an umbrella. Yet many of us have a frightening ignorance of how probability works.
Taking Chances presents an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198526636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198526636 |
| Author: | John Haigh |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 388 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 8 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 415g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Review from previous edition 'the volume is ideally suited for readers with virtually no training in mathematics, but who are curious about how actually to assess the odds of things like winning a single game at lawn tennis or on which hands in poker one should raise . . . This is a book to ponder, savour, study - and give to your mathematically illiterate friends''The Times Higher Education Supplement’(an) impressively comprehensive new book on the wonders of probability”The Sunday Telegraph
About The Author
John Haigh
John Haigh is Reader in Statistics at the University of Sussex. His interest in probability was awakened by various card games, and he has made a particular study of lotteries, cards, and dice.
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