The Architecture of Chance: An Introduction to the Logic and Arithmetic of Probability - Hardcover

Lowry, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195056078 ISBN 13: 9780195056075

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Lowry is at Vassar College.

Review

"The book does an admirable job of achieving the logic and arithmetic of probability without sacrificing rigor and while still retaining a readable and enjoyable writing style. For the most part, this little book is a gem that would serve well as a supplement to many standard statistical
methods courses. . . .I found Lowry's book to be delightful reading and of benefit to both graduate and undergraduate statistics students as well as liberal arts students." --Journal of the American Statistical Association

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195056078
• ISBN 13: 9780195056075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192