The Architecture of Chance
An Introduction to the Logic and Arithmetic of Probability
Published on 16. May 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-19-505608-2 (ISBN)
Description
Undergraduate textbooks for statistics courses in the behavioural, biological, and social sciences must devote so much space to the nuts-and-bolts details of statistical methods that they have little left over for the larger conceptual framework of probability theory. This brief, lucid book fills the gap with its intelligible and in-depth explanation of probability, laid out step-by-step in a clear and congenial fashion. Even the student with little background in mathematics will find it readable and accessible.
Reviews / Votes
'Richard Lowry's book offers a valuable approach to the technical and methodological difficulties ... A general understanding can be provided by Lowry's very clear text.'BTimes Higher Education Supplement
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures, tables throughout
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-505608-2 (9780195056082)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Introduction; "Common sense reduced to calculation"; The logic and arithmetic of compound probabilities; Probability pathways and a first glance at the logic of probability assessment; Binomial probabilities and the concept of sampling distributions; The normal distribution--remarkable crossroad of fact and theory; Some complex probability assessments based on the normal distribution; A brief climb to one of the next higher levels: Student's t-distributions and the logic of estimation; Appendix A: Table of the unit normal distribution; Appendix B: Table of critical values of student's t-distributions.