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What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability
Title:
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability
Author:
Holland, Bart K.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xi, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Roulette wheels and the plague -- Surely something's wrong with you -- The life table: you can bet on it! -- The rarest events -- The waiting game -- Stockbrokers and climate change.
ISBN:
9780801869419
Format :
Book