Starbird, Michael P.,  1948- <br/><br/>
What are the chances? :   probability made clear / 
 Probability made clear 
Michael Starbird. 
 - Chantilly, Virginia :  The Teaching Company,  2006. 
 - 2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) :   sound, color ;   4 3/4 in. +   course guidebook (80 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) 
 - Great courses (DVD).   Science & mathematics. .
 - The Great courses .
 - The Great Courses .
<br/><br/> Course no. 1474.<br/>Course consists of 12 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 1 videodisc and each videodisc consists of six lectures.<br/>Accompanying course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.  "Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Mathematics." 
<br/><br/>Disc 1: Lecture 1. Our random world--probability defined -- Lecture 2. The nature of randomness -- Lecture 3. Expected value--you can bet on it -- Lecture 4. Random thoughts on random walks -- Lecture 5. Probability phenomena of physics -- Lecture 6. Probability is in our genes -- Disc 2 : Lecture 7. Options and our financial future -- Lecture 8. Probability where we don't expect it -- Lecture 9. Probability surprises -- Lecture 10. Conundrums of conditional probability -- Lecture 11. Believe it or not--Bayesian probability -- Lecture 12. Probabilitiy everywhere. 
<br/><br/> Michael Starbird, University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses probability, the study that gives meaningful numerical value to the random factors and combinations that lurk behind almost everything 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781598032666 (set) 1598032666 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education. <br/>Teaching.<br/>Educación<br/>Enseñanza<br/>Estadística matemática<br/>Probabilidades
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 14.6  / S795w 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370