What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability /
Holland, Bart K.
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K. Holland. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002. - xi, 141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Roulette wheels and the plague -- Surely something's wrong with you -- The life table : you can bet on it! -- The rarest events -- The waiting game -- Stockbrokers and climate change.
0801869412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2001-005687
Chance--Popular works.
Probabilities--Popular works.
QA273.15 / .H65 2002
519.2
What are the chances? : voodoo deaths, office gossip, and other adventures in probability / Bart K. Holland. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002. - xi, 141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Roulette wheels and the plague -- Surely something's wrong with you -- The life table : you can bet on it! -- The rarest events -- The waiting game -- Stockbrokers and climate change.
0801869412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2001-005687
Chance--Popular works.
Probabilities--Popular works.
QA273.15 / .H65 2002
519.2