AuthorFung, Kaiser
TitleNumbers rule your world : the hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do / Kaiser Fung
Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, c2010
Descript xv, 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

CONTENT

Introduction -- Fast passes are to slow merges : the discontent of being averaged -- Bagged spinach is to bad score : the virtue of being wrong -- Item bank is to risk pool : the dilemma of being together -- Timid testers are to magic lassos : the sway of being asymmetric -- Jet crashes are to jackpots : the power of being impossible -- Conclusion


SUBJECT

  1. Statistics -- Social aspects
  2. Probabilities -- Social aspects

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Sasin Library519.5 F982N 2010 CHECK SHELVES