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2. The Signal and the Noise - Wikipedia

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   978-1-59-420411-1. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using probability and statistics as applied to real-world circumstances. The book includes case studies from baseball, elections, climate change, the 2008 financial crash, poker, and weather forecasting.

3. List of important publications in statistics - Wikipedia

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   This book was written before computer programmes were available, so it gives the detail needed to make the calculations manually.Cited in more than 1,381 publications between 1961 and 1975. [6] Importance: Influence. Biometry: The Principles and Practices of Statistics in Biological Research . Authors: Robert R. Sokal; F. J. Rohlf

4. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 - Wikipedia

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   First edition. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 is an introductory undergraduate-level textbook on probability theory, centered on the metaphor of games of chance. [1] It was written by Benedict Gross, Joe Harris, and Emily Riehl, based on a course for non-mathematicians taught to Harvard University undergraduates, and published by the Cambridge University Press in 2019.

5. Counterexamples in Probability - Wikipedia

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   Counterexamples in Probability is a mathematics book by Jordan M. Stoyanov. Intended to serve as a supplemental text for classes on probability theory and related topics, it covers cases where a mathematical proposition might seem to be true but actually turns out to be false. First published in 1987, the book received a second edition in 1997 ...

6. Ars Conjectandi - Wikipedia

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   The cover page of Ars Conjectandi. Ars Conjectandi (Latin for "The Art of Conjecturing") is a book on combinatorics and mathematical probability written by Jacob Bernoulli and published in 1713, eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. The seminal work consolidated, apart from many combinatorial topics, many central ideas ...

7. The Doctrine of Chances - Wikipedia

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   The Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. [1] De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England at the time, having fled France to escape the persecution of Huguenots. The book's title came to be synonymous with ...