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" Chance rules : "
Brian S Everitt
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721627
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b541334
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Brian S Everitt
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Chance rules : : an informal guide to probability, risk, and statistics.\ Brian S Everitt
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[Place of publication not identified]: Springer, 2012
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1461221641
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: 9781461221647
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A Brief History of Chance * Tossing Coins and Having Babies * Rolling Dice * Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools * Serious Gambling: Roulette, Cards and Horse Racing * Birthdays and Coincidences * Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes * Puzzling Probabilities * Taking Risks * Statistics, Statisticians and Medicine * Alternative Therapies-Paneceas of Placebos? * Chance in Nature * What is Chance?
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Brian S Everitt
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