The Architecture of Chance: An Introduction to the Logic and Arithmetic of ProbabilityOxford University Press, 1989 - 175 pages Undergraduate textbooks for statistics courses in the behavioral, biological, and social sciences must devote so much space to the nuts-and-bolts details of statistical methods that they have little left over for the larger conceptual framework of probability theory. This brief, lucid book fills the gap with its intelligible and in-depth explanation of probability, laid out step-by-step in a clear and congenial fashion. Even the student with little background in mathematics will find it readable and accessible. |
Table des matières
Introduction The Architecture of Chance | 3 |
The Logic and Arithmetic of Compound Probabilities | 31 |
Probability Pathways and a First Glance at the Logic | 48 |
Binomial Probabilities and the Concept | 70 |
The Normal DistributionRemarkable Crossroad | 97 |
Appendix A Tables of the Unit Normal Distribution | 163 |
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