Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Cars, Goats, and Sample Spaces
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Chapter 2
How to Count: Birthdays and Lotteries
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Chapter 3
Conditional Probability: From Kings to Prisoners
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Chapter 4
The Formula of Thomas Bayes and Other Matters
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Chapter 5
The Idea of Independence, with Applications
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Chapter 6
A Little Bit About Games
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Chapter 7
Random Variables, Expectations, and More About Games
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Chapter 8
Baseball Cards, The Law of Large Numbers, and Bad News for Gamblers
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Chapter 9
From Traffic to Chocolate Chip Cookies with the Poisson Distribution
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Chapter 10
The Desperate Case of the Gambler’s Ruin
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Chapter 11
Breaking Sticks, Tossing Needles, and More: Probability on Continuous Sample Spaces
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Chapter 12
Normal Distributions, and Order from Diversity via the Central Limit Theorem
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Chapter 13
Random Numbers:What They Are and How to Use Them
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Chapter 14
Computers and Probability
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Chapter 15
Statistics: Applying Probability to Make Decisions
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Chapter 16
Roaming the Number Line With a Markov Chain: Dependence
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Chapter 17
The Brownian Motion, and Other Processes in Continuous Time
Attention for Chapter 12:
Normal Distributions, and Order from Diversity via the Central Limit Theorem