Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories /

"This book bundles together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem, the Chow-Robbins game and the devil's penny game? How the gambler's fallacy created the Venic...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Tijms, Henk (مؤلف)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, c2019
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الملخص:"This book bundles together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem, the Chow-Robbins game and the devil's penny game? How the gambler's fallacy created the Venice-53 hysteria in the national Italian lottery. These questions and many others are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive as well and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas"--
وصف مادي:xiii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ردمك:9780367000431
9780367000820