Digressions in Elementary Probability

The Unexpected in Medicine, Sports, and Society

AvEdward Beltrami

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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It returns to Poisson events to discuss another unexpected result, followed by the use of spatial Poisson events in the delivery of emergency response services.Finally, an account of fluctuations that occur in a run of Bernoulli trials as a bookend to the very first section of the book.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-25
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:371 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Antal sidor:121
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031700507

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Edward Beltrami is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York. His research interests include probability theory, mathematical biology, mathematical modelling, and many more. He is the author of several books on the applications of mathematics.

Innehållsförteckning

Success Runs in Bernoulli Trials.- Chapter 2. The Remarkable Streak of Joe Di Maggio.- Chapter 3. Inherited, Not Acquired.- Chapter 4. A Subtle Bias.- Chapter 5. Addendum : Conditional Expectation.- Chapter 6. Hot Hands in Basketball.- Chapter 7. Restricted Choice.- Chapter 8. Another Conundrum : What Does Crowd Size at Wimbledon’s Tennis Match Tell us About Baseball Batting Averages?- Chapter 9. Cancer Clusters.- Chapter 10. Medical Mis-Readings.- Chapter 11. The Wrong Conclusion.- Chapter 12. Clinical Trials.- Chapter 13. Margin of Error.- Chapter 14. What Are the Odds of That?- Chapter 15. Turing’s Evidence.- Chapter 16. Bell’s Inequality.- Chapter 17. The Paradox of Random Arrivals.- Chapter 18. The Inverse Square Root Law.- Chapter 19. Runs, Again.- Chapter 20. Addendum : Tutorial on Elementary Probability.