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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Boca Raton :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
c2019
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Table of Contents:
- 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.