What Are the Chances Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip and Other Adventures in Probability 1st Edition by Bart Holland ISBN 0801875927 9780801875922

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ISBN 10: 0801875927

ISBN 13: 9780801875922

Author: Bart K. Holland 

What Are the Chances?: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability 1st Edition : 

Using examples drawn from daily life and history, the author explains what probability is and how it works.

Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller Bart K. Holland takes us on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving together tales from real life―from the spread of the bubonic plague in medieval Europe or the number of Prussian cavalrymen kicked to death by their horses, through IQ test results and deaths by voodoo curse, to why you have to wait in line for rides at Disneyworld―Holland captures the reader’s imagination with surprising examples of probability in action, everyday events that can profoundly affect our lives but are controlled by just one number.

As Holland explains, even chance events are governed by the laws of probability and follow regular patterns called statistical laws. He shows how such laws are successfully applied, with great benefit, in fields as diverse as the insurance industry, the legal system, medical research, aerospace engineering, and climatology. Whether you have only a distant recollection of high school algebra or use differential equations every day, this book offers examples of the impact of chance that will amuse and astonish.

 

What Are the Chances?: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. RouletteWheels and the Plague
2. Surely Something’s Wrong with You
3. The Life Table: You Can Bet on It!
4. The Rarest Events
5. TheWaiting Game
6. Stockbrokers and Climate Change

 

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