Digressions in Elementary Probability The Unexpected in Medicine, Sports, and Society /
This book is about the interplay between chance and order, but limited to mostly binary events, such as success/failure as they occur in a diversity of interesting applications. The goal is to entertain and instruct with topics that range from unexpected encounters with chance in everyday experience...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70051-4 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Success Runs in Bernoulli Trials
- Chapter 2. The Remarkable Streak of Joe Di Maggio
- Chapter 3. Inherited, Not Acquired
- Chapter 4. A Subtle Bias
- Chapter 5. Addendum : Conditional Expectation
- Chapter 6. Hot Hands in Basketball
- Chapter 7. Restricted Choice
- Chapter 8. Another Conundrum : What Does Crowd Size at Wimbledon’s Tennis Match Tell us About Baseball Batting Averages?- Chapter 9. Cancer Clusters
- Chapter 10. Medical Mis-Readings
- Chapter 11. The Wrong Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Clinical Trials
- Chapter 13. Margin of Error
- Chapter 14. What Are the Odds of That?- Chapter 15. Turing’s Evidence
- Chapter 16. Bell’s Inequality
- Chapter 17. The Paradox of Random Arrivals
- Chapter 18. The Inverse Square Root Law
- Chapter 19. Runs, Again
- Chapter 20. Addendum : Tutorial on Elementary Probability.