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Probability Models by John Haigh 9781447153429
Booksplease Price: £31.52The purpose of this book is to provide a sound introduction to the study of real-world phenomena that possess random variation. It describes how to set up and analyse models of real-life phenomena... -
Taking Chances: Winning with Probability by John Haigh
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £11.87What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their... -
Probability: A Very Short Introduction by John Haigh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and... -
Mathematics in Everyday Life by John Haigh 9783030330866
Booksplease Price: £46.28How does mathematics impact everyday events? Through concrete examples from business, sport, games, computing, and society, this book explores the mathematics underpinning our everyday lives.The... -
London Murders: In the Footsteps of the Capital's Killers by David Long
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01People love hearing about a grisly murder; gasping at the gory details, wondering about the motives, deducing who did it. This macabre fascination is nothing new. In the past racehorses, greyhounds... -
Criminal Britain: A Photographic History of the Country's Most Notorious Crimes by Mirrorpix 9780750990745
Booksplease Price: £16.70A first-hand look at some of Britain's darkest moments. Some of the world's most notorious crimes have taken place in Britain, and the names of the perpetrators are now synonymous with murder and... -
Regression: Linear Models in Statistics by Nick Bingham 9781848829688
Booksplease Price: £29.99Regression is the branch of Statistics in which a dependent variable of interest is modelled as a linear combination of one or more predictor variables, together with a random error. The subject is... -
Missing Presumed Murdered: The McKay Case and Other Convictions without a Corpse by Kirby, Dick
Booksplease Price: £24.57Murders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of... -
Markov Chains by J. R. Norris
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.17Markov chains are central to the understanding of random processes. This is not only because they pervade the applications of random processes, but also because one can calculate explicitly many... -
Survival: February-March 2024 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) 9781032806563
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.14Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:Franz-Stefan Gady and... -
Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives Peter Olofsson (Trinity University) 9780470624456
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £34.57What are the chances? Find out in this entertaining exploration ofprobabilities in our everyday lives "If there is anything you want to know, or remind yourself, about probabilities, then look no... -
Chance, Logic and Intuition: An Introduction to the Counter-Intuitive Logic of Chance by Steven Tijms 9789811229183
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Chance rules our daily lives in many different ways. From the outcomes of the lottery to the outcomes of medical tests, from the basketball court to the court of law. The ways of chance are... -
A Panorama of Statistics: Perspectives, Puzzles and Paradoxes in Statistics Eric Sowey (School of Economics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) 9781119075820
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £32.02This book is a stimulating panoramic tour - quite different from a textbook journey - of the world of statistics in both its theory and practice, for teachers, students and practitioners.At each stop... -
Introduction to Probability by David F. Anderson 9781108415859
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.19This classroom-tested textbook is an introduction to probability theory, with the right balance between mathematical precision, probabilistic intuition, and concrete applications. Introduction to... -
Mythematics: Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules by Michael Huber 9780691135755
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05How might Hercules, the most famous of the Greek heroes, have used mathematics to complete his astonishing Twelve Labors? From conquering the Nemean Lion and cleaning out the Augean Stables, to... -
Surprises in Probability: Seventeen Short Stories by Henk Tijms
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09This book brings together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem? What can... -
Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams by A. W. F. Edwards 9780801874345
Booksplease Price: £32.42Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn... -
Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas by Julian Havil 9780691148229
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely...