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Board games Brothers California Los Angeles Drama Card games Colleges and universities Faculty California Los Angeles Drama Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama Probabilities Probabilities Drama Probabilities Popular works Statistics United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation DramaFlatt, Lizann
Summary: As young readers journey into the natural world, they will discover that numbers, patterns, shapes -- and much more! -- can be found by observing everyday plants and animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLASummary: "Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by."--Container.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2014
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 150Summary: FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramnjuan, Charlie's former grad student.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: FBI agent Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie, a brilliant math professor at a California university. Don deals in hard facts and evidence, Charlie thrives in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Don and Charlie often combine their areas of expertise to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMCohen, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 COHEverett, Sarah
Summary: When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC EVESummary: "There is a good chance this will be one of Bill's best episodes! In Probability, watch Bill make this complicated concept very simple to understand, while showing how it allows us to predict events"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Hans Rosling's hands, global trends in health and economics come to vivid life and the big picture of global development snaps into sharp focus. In this TEDTalk, Rosling debunks myths about the so-called developing world with credible statistics illustrated by visualization software he developed. The software's animations transform facts and figures into moving bubbles and flowing curves...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 MLOSummary: For a few weeks every year starlings migrate, creating shifting, synchronized formations of nearly a million birds that flow across the sky like a well-choreographed dance. How does each bird anticipate where its neighbor will fly? Studying data from Google allows analysts to predict flu outbreaks-so why can't weather be forecast more than a few days in advance? And if winning a game of Rock,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVStarbird, Michael.
Summary: 12 lectures about probability delivered by Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 519.2 WhatSummary: Emma's band wants to post a music video on YouTube, but they aren't sure which of their songs should be featured. Emma's best friend helps them choose by using Facebook contacts to conduct a survey, exploring the concepts of qualitative and quantitative data along the way. Viewers learn how to sample, present, and analyze data, generate histograms, frequency tables, stem and leaf plots,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Brookhart, Clint.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519 BROGigerenzer, Gerd.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 GIGKaplan, Michael.
Summary: A layman's journey into the realm of probability. We search for certainty, but find only likelihood. All things are possible, only one thing actually happens; everything else is in the realm of probability. The twin disciplines of probability and statistics underpin every modern science and sketch the shape of all purposeful group activity--politics, economics, medicine, law, sports--giving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 KAPStewart, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 STESummary: In this TEDTalk, Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics - and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bluman, Allan G.
Contents: Basic concepts -- Sample spaces -- Addition rules -- Multiplication rules -- Odds and expectation -- Counting rules -- Binomial distribution -- Other probability distributions -- Normal distribution -- Simulation -- Game theory -- Actuarial science -- Appendix Bayes' Theorem.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 BLUGibilisco, Stan.
Summary: "Self-Teaching guide ... fundamental guide to the concepts of statistics and probability ... problem solving, drawings, tables, quizzes and a 'final exam'."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.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,"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 HANLeedy, Loreen.
Summary: "Lisa's class is learning about probability. For part of her homework, she has to think of an event that will happen, one that might happen, and one that can't happen. Who is that Boston terrier that keeps popping into Lisa's imagination? It's probably Penny!"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 519.2 LEESummary: What is the binomial probability that Mickey, a lounge lizard, will get a phone number? After presenting the five characteristics of binomial probability distribution and explaining the binomial probability formula-including a review of factorials-this program examines the mean, deviation, variation, and standard deviation of a binomial probability distribution.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008