TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tijms,H.C.
TI  - Surprises in probability: seventeen short stories 
SN  - 9780367000820
AV  - QA273.15 .T55 2019
U1  - 519.2 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book bundles together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem, the Chow-Robbins game and the devil's penny game? How the gambler's fallacy created the Venice-53 hysteria in the national Italian lottery. These questions and many others are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive as well and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429444579/surprises-probability-henk-tijms?context=ubx&refId=8428a615-0a83-4ccd-82a2-13dfbeb86812
ER  -