Chance Rules an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics /

• Main Author: Everitt, Brian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2008.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics, general.

Chance continues to govern our lives in the 21st Century. From the genes we inherit and the environment into which we are born, to the lottery ticket we buy at the local store, much of life is a gamble. In business, education, travel, health, and marriage, we take chances in the hope of obtaining so...