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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Autor principal: Tijms, Henk (Autor)
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, c2019
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260 |a Boca Raton :  |b CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,  |c c2019 
300 |a xiii, 131 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 |a What is casino credit worth? -- One hundred prisoners : freedom or death -- Birthday surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles -- Was the champions league rigged? -- Benford goes to the casino -- Surprising card games, or, it's all in the cards -- The lost boarding pass and the Seven Dwarfs -- Monte Carlo simulation and probability : the interface -- Lotto nonsense : the world is asking to be deceived -- March madness grips the USA -- Coincidences and impossibilities -- Gambler's fallacy -- Euler's number e is everywhere -- The 10 most beautiful formulas in probability -- Beating the odds on the lottery -- Investing and gambling with Kelly -- To stop or not to stop? That is the question. 
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