The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening
Hand, D. J. (David J.), 1950-2014
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Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen? In this book - aimed squarely at anyone with an interest in coincidences, probability or gambling - eminent statistician David Hand answers this question by weaving together various strands of probability into a unified explanation, which he calls the improbability principle.
Main title:
Author:
Hand, D. J. (David J.), 1950-, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2014.London : Bantam Press, 2014.
Collation:
xii, 269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780593072813 (hbk)
Dewey class:
519.2519.2 HAN519.2HAN
Local class:
519.2
Language:
English
BRN:
1475780