Chance Rules

2. A Brief History of Chance
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3. What Are the Chances? Assigning Probabilities
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4. Choice and Chance; Permutations and Combinations
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5. Tossing Coins and Having Babies
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6. Rolling Dice
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7. Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools
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8. Serious Gambling: Roulette, Cards and Horse Racing
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9. Balls, Birthdays and Coincidences
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10. Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
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11. Puzzling Probabilities
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12. Taking Risks
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13. Statistics, Statisticians and Medicine
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14. Alternative Therapies—Panaceas or Placebos?
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15. What Does the Future Hold?
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16. Chance, Chaos and Chromosomes
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Avainsanat: Statistics, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistics, general