Probability: For the Enthusiastic Beginner

Thisbookiswrittenforhighschoolandcollegestudentslearningaboutprobabilityforthefirsttime.Itwillappealtothereaderwhohasahealthylevelofenthusiasmforunderstandinghowandwhythevariousresultsofprobabilitycomeabout.Allofthestandardintroductorytopicsinprobabilityarecovered:combinatorics,therulesofprobability,Bayes?theorem,expectationvalue,variance,probabilitydensity,commondistributions,thelawoflargenumbers,thecentrallimittheorem,correlation,andregression.Calculusisnotaprerequisite,althoughafewoftheproblemsdoinvolvecalculus.Thesearemarkedclearly.Thebookfeatures150worked-outproblemsintheformofexamplesinthetextandsolvedproblemsattheendofeachchapter.Theseproblems,alongwiththediscussionsinthetext,willbeavaluableresourceinanyintroductoryprobabilitycourse,eitherasthemaintextorasahelpfulsupplement.,