The Pleasures of Probability

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