PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR EVERYMAN

subtitled ""How to Understand and Use the Laws of Chance"", Dr. Adler's new book for amateurs explains and demonstrates the fascinating field of probability theory, which first emerged as a separate branch of mathematics when Blaise Pascal id some figuring for a gambling friend more than three centuries ago, and which today is important in such diverse areas as quality control, genetics, medicine, and ilitary strategy. A great deal of worthwhile attention is paid here to the ernoulli distribution, the normal distribution, and the Poisson distribution, and so to the concepts of expectation, standard deviation, population samples, and correlations. The final chapter is devoted to some of the basic questions of science, such as the relation between casuality and chance. No special knowledge is required, eyond high school algebra. There are related problems at the end of each chapter, with the answers worked out at the back of the book.