Cohen, Ben

Summary: "For fans of Charles Duhigg, Philip Tetlock and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020

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Mlodinow, Leonard

Summary: An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 MLO

Levinson, Horace C. (Horace Clifford)

Summary: In simple, nontechnical language, the author explores the fundamentals governing chance and applies them to statistics relevant to sports, government, business, and other fields. Part I concerns the theory of probability, with discussions of superstitions, fallacies, betting odds, the law of mathematical expectation, and specific applications of probability to poker, roulette, lotteries, dice...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001

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Gigerenzer, Gerd.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 GIG

Stewart, Ian

Summary: Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 STE

Hand, D. J. (David J.)

Summary: "An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand unveils his groundbreaking argument that extraordinarily rare events are in fact commonplace. Weaving together fascinating new ways to think about chance, Hand highlights his "law of near enough," the "look elsewhere effect,"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 HAN