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Probability : a very short introduction / John Haigh.

by Haigh, John, 1955-

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Oxford University Press, 2012.

Very short introductions ; 310.

9780199588480 (pbk.)

0199588481 (pbk.)

128 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.

"Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. It requires, in short, an understanding of probability. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh introduces the ideas of probability--and the different philosophical approaches to probability--and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions and discusses a wide range of applications in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts such as games and betting. He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes."--Provided by publisher.

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