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书名:Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives
作者简介
PETER OLOFSSON, PHD, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Trinity University. Dr. Olofsson is an active researcher in the field of applied probability and is an experienced teacher. He is the author of Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes, also from Wiley.
目录
Preface.
1. Computing Probabilities: Right Ways and Wrong Ways.
2. Surprising Probabilities: When Intuition Struggles.
3. Tiny Probabilities: Why Are They So Hard to Escape?
4. Backward Probabilities: The Reverend Bayes to Our Rescue.
5. Beyond Probabilities: What to Expect.
6. Inevitable Probabilities: Two Fascination Mathematical Results.
7. Gambling Probabilities: Why Donald Trump Is Richer than You.
8. Guessing Probabilities: Enter the Statisticians.
9. Faking Probabilities: Computer Simulation.
Index.