Product Description

Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems


Increase your chances of acing that probability exam –– or winning at the casino!

Whether you′re hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy–to–understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability –– and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!

Discover how to
∗ Conquer combinations and permutations
∗ Understand probability models from binomial to exponential
∗ Make good decisions using probability
∗ Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48574 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover
Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems

Increase your chances of acing that probability exam — or winning at the casino!

Whether you′re hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy–to–understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability — and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling success!

Discover how to

• Conquer combinations and permutations
• Understand probability models from binomial to exponential
• Make good decisions using probability
• Play the odds in poker, roulette, and other games

About the Author
Deborah Rumsey has a PhD in Statistics from The Ohio State University (1993). Upon graduating, she joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University, where she won the distinguished Presidential Teaching Award and earned tenure and promotion in 1998. In 2000, she returned to Ohio State and is now a Statistics Education Specialist/Auxiliary Faculty Member for the Department of Statistics. Dr. Rumsey has served on the American Statistical Association’s Statistics Education Executive Committee and is the Editor of the Teaching Bits section of the Journal of Statistics Education. She’s the author of the books Statistics For Dummies and Statistics Workbook For Dummies (Wiley). She also has published many papers and given many professional presentations on the subject of Statistics Education. Her particular research interests are curriculum materials development, teacher training and support, and immersive learning environments. Her passions, besides teaching, include her family, fishing, bird watching, driving a new Kubota tractor on the family “farm,” and Ohio State Buckeye football (not necessarily in that order).

Customer Reviews

Actually this is a serious math book.
Don't be fooled by the Dummies moniker. This book is an excellent introduction to Probability full of common sense intuitive explanation. Perfect for a first course on the subject. You'll need to have exercises to practise on though.

Best book I have found
Wishing to study probability I searched around for a book. This was in fact the third I tried. What I required was a book that covers the mathematics for a range of applications, this fits the bill nicely.
My only critism is the size of the print, the information is packed onto the pages.
In my opinion the best book and good value for for money

Probability for dummies - complement (exciting)
I bought this book because I wanted help in understanding some Feynman Lecture notes that I was reading which used symbollic notation that I didn't understand. As I am not American there can often be a division in the way various subjects are explained and notated (when compared to what I have met in the past) but I try not to let that put me off because I have found the dummies books a good read and will continue to buy them.

I have read only two thirds of the book so far but think I have already got a good introduction and overview of the subject. I expect I will have to reference the material again as and when I need it as the subject is not particularly memorable.

At least I know what is meant by open brackets, k over n, close brackets now and prepared for discrete and continuous distributions etc. I'm sure the book will be a good reference text for understanding my future reading material.