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Introduction -- An introduction to probability -- Probability distribution functions and some math basics -- Building a bell -- Random walks -- Life insurance -- The binomial theorem -- Pseudorandom numbers and Monte-Carlo simulations -- Some gambling games in detail -- Scheduling and waiting -- Com...

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1. Verfasser: Dworsky, Lawrence N. 1943- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken, NJ Wiley 2019
Ausgabe:Second edition
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- An introduction to probability -- Probability distribution functions and some math basics -- Building a bell -- Random walks -- Life insurance -- The binomial theorem -- Pseudorandom numbers and Monte-Carlo simulations -- Some gambling games in detail -- Scheduling and waiting -- Combined and conditional probabilities -- Bayesian statistics -- Estimation problems -- Paradoxes -- Benford's law -- Networks, infectious diseases and chain letters -- Introduction to frequentist statistical inference -- Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics -- Chaos and quanta -- Appendix
An introduction to probability and statistics at an introductory level
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:xiii, 333 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9781119518105

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