The Resource The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening, David Hand
The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening, David Hand
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The item The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening, David Hand represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 269 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Isbn
- 9780593072813
- Label
- The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening
- Title
- The improbability principle
- Title remainder
- why incredibly unlikely things keep happening
- Statement of responsibility
- David Hand
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hand, D. J.
- Dewey number
-
- 519.2
- 519.2
- 519.2
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Probabilities
- Chance
- Coincidence
- Popular Science and Mathematics
- Label
- The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening, David Hand
- Note
- Originally published: New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9780593072813
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 269 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593072813
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- Label
- The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening, David Hand
- Note
- Originally published: New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9780593072813
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 269 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593072813
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
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