Probability : a very short introduction / John Haigh.
Introduces the ideas of probability--and the different philosophical approaches to probability--and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions and discusse...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
310. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Very Short Introductions |
| Summary: | Introduces the ideas of probability--and the different philosophical approaches to probability--and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions and discusses a wide range of applications in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts such as games and betting. He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191777943 9780191777943 |