Probability For Dummies (For Dummies Series) - Softcover

Rumsey, Deborah J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471751413 ISBN 13: 9780471751410

Publisher: For Dummies, 2006

Synopsis

Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems


Increase your chances of acing that probability exam -- or winning at the casino!

Whether you're hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability -- and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!

Discover how to
* Conquer combinations and permutations
* Understand probability models from binomial to exponential
* Make good decisions using probability
* Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Rumsey has a PhD in Statistics from The Ohio State University (1993). Upon graduating, she joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University, where she won the distinguished Presidential Teaching Award and earned tenure and promotion in 1998. In 2000, she returned to Ohio State and is now a Statistics Education Specialist/Auxiliary Faculty Member for the Department of Statistics. Dr. Rumsey has served on the American Statistical Association’s Statistics Education Executive Committee and is the Editor of the Teaching Bits section of the Journal of Statistics Education. She’s the author of the books Statistics For Dummies and Statistics Workbook For Dummies (Wiley). She also has published many papers and given many professional presentations on the subject of Statistics Education. Her particular research interests are curriculum materials development, teacher training and support, and immersive learning environments. Her passions, besides teaching, include her family, fishing, bird watching, driving a new Kubota tractor on the family “farm,” and Ohio State Buckeye football (not necessarily in that order).

From the Back Cover

Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems

Increase your chances of acing that probability exam ― or winning at the casino!

Whether you're hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability ― and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!

Discover how to

• Conquer combinations and permutations
• Understand probability models from binomial to exponential
• Make good decisions using probability
• Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games

Increase your chances of acing that probability exam — or winning at the casino!

Whether you're hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability — and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!

Discover how to

• Conquer combinations and permutations
• Understand probability models from binomial to exponential
• Make good decisions using probability
• Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471751413
• ISBN 13: 9780471751410
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384