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What Are the Chances?: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability
Bart K. Holland
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Description for What Are the Chances?: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages, 7, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PBT; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801869419
SKU
V9780801869419
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-24
About Bart K. Holland
Bart K. Holland is an associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at New Jersey Medical School.
Reviews for What Are the Chances?: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability
All 140 pages of What Are the Chances? are enjoyable and convey much wisdom in an area where gut feelings and rash actions frequently prevail.
Colin Keay
The Physicist
An extremely fun read... Insightful and full of interesting applications.
Chance
Holland captures the reader's imagination with surprising examples of probability in action, everyday events that ... Read more
Colin Keay
The Physicist
An extremely fun read... Insightful and full of interesting applications.
Chance
Holland captures the reader's imagination with surprising examples of probability in action, everyday events that ... Read more