TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grinstead, Charles M.
AU  - Peterson, William P.
AU  - Snell, J. Laurie
TI  - Probability tales
T2  - Student mathematical library
SN  - 9789349750708
U1  - 519.2 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - India
PB  - Universities Press
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Stochastic processes
KW  - Probability theory and stochastic processes
KW  - Instructional exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.)
KW  - Statistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index; Readership: Undergraduate students interested in the connections of mathematics (specifically, probability and statistics) and real-life stories
N2  - This book explores four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory. It can be used to supplement a standard text in probability or statistics. Most elementary textbooks present the basic theory and then illustrate the ideas with some neatly packaged examples. Here the authors assume that the reader has seen, or is learning, the basic theory from another book and concentrate in some depth on the following topics: streaks, the stock market, lotteries, and fingerprints. This extended format allows the authors to present multiple approaches to problems and to pursue promising side discussions in ways that would not be possible in a book constrained to cover a fixed set of topics.

To keep the main narrative accessible, the authors have placed the more technical mathematical details in appendices. The appendices can be understood by someone who has taken one or two semesters of calculus
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