Henk Tijms is Professor in Operations Research at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. The author of several textbooks including, A First Course in Stochastic Models, he is intensively active in the popularization of applied mathematics and probability in Dutch high schools. He has also written numero
Understanding Probability : Chance Rules in Everyday Life
โ Scribed by Tijms, Henk
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 454
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
New edition of the popular and informal introduction to probability, now with even more examples and exercises to help understanding.
Abstract: New edition of the popular and informal introduction to probability, now with even more examples and exercises to help understanding
โฆ Table of Contents
Content: Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One Probability in action
Part Two Essentials of probability
Appendix Counting methods and ex
Recommended reading
Answers to odd-numbered problems
Bibliography
Index.
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