Starbird, Michael P., 1948-

What are the chances? : probability made clear : transcript book / Probability made clear Michael Starbird. - Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2006. - vi, 211 p. ; 19 cm. - The Great Courses Science & mathematics. . - The Great courses . - The Great Courses .

Course no. 1474.
Course consists of 12 lectures. "Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Mathematics."

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 -- 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.

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

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