What are the Chances of That?: How to Think About Uncertainty

What are the Chances of That? discusses chance and the importance of understanding how it affects our lives. It goes beyond a mathematical approach to the subject, showing how our thinking about chance and uncertainty has been shaped by history and culture, and only relatively recently by the mathem...

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1. Verfasser: Elliott, Andrew C. A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:What are the Chances of That? discusses chance and the importance of understanding how it affects our lives. It goes beyond a mathematical approach to the subject, showing how our thinking about chance and uncertainty has been shaped by history and culture, and only relatively recently by the mathematical theory of probability.
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198869023.001.0001