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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0486675491
  • ISBN-13:
    9780486675497
  • PUB. DATE:
    May 1993
  • PUBLISHER:
    Dover Publications
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Introduction to Probability / Edition 1 by John E. Freund

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This clearly and carefully written text introduces probability at a level suitable for first year university students. It begins with a discussion of enumerative combinatorics 'In how many ways ...?' because probability is classically defined as the ratio of the number of ways an event can occur divided by the total number of possible events. This leads to a discussion of the different approaches...

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Introduction to Probability

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  • Pub. Date: May 1993
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Sales Rank: 424,089

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Thorough, lucid coverage of permutations and factorials, probabilities and odds, frequency interpretation, mathematical expectation, decision making, postulates of probability, rule of elimination, binomial distribution, geometric distribution, standard deviation, law of large numbers, and much more. Exercises with some solutions. Summary. Bibliography. Includes 42 black-and-white illustrations. 1973 edition.