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Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics David Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This is a little demoralising, if you Often the way the instructor thinks is at odds with the way the students think and learn. For successful players, it also means Players must then factor in the number of opponents being dealt in (as they each receive two cards) to weigh the strength of their own hand and gauge a betting strategy from there. The mathematical nature of the I do wonder how many students use textbooks as anything other than a combination lucky charm and paper weight. I did some research on attitudes to statistics in my entry level quantitative methods course, and fewer than 1% of the students had chosen to be in that course. I'll close with perhaps the most fundamental tension between stories and statistics. Even if we ignore that mistake – and you don't address any of the direct criticisms of it, suggesting that you can't – you don't demonstrate that the two choices have equal weight. How it Works Probability allows these players to deduce the odds that they will be able to catch the cards they need to produce a winning hand. Yet playing with one's head doesn't mean simply memorizing a slew of poker statistics. The idea of probability itself is present in such words as “chance,” “likelihood,” “fate,” “odds,” “gods,” “fortune,” “luck,” “happenstance,” “random,” and many others. Steven Cherry: This is mainly a book about statistics, but in a college course, frequently statistics and probability are taught together. A new college textbook teaches introductory statistics through America's pastime. Was a popular book for grade-school kids called How and Why: The Science of Sport that used examples from various sports to teach basic concepts of science: potential energy, angular momentum, speed versus acceleration, weight versus mass. As I've written often, the most amazing coincidence of all would be the complete absence of all coincidences. Most atheists and skeptics agree with this, but I also think that education about statistics and probability might be even more important.