Two boys find that the most ordinary events and activities such as card games, coin flips, sports scores and statistics, and even weather prediction are dependent on the subtle interplay of many factors of chance and probability.

"Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out. But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. AMPLUS-68 has an 84.7% chance...

Presents the fundamentals of statistics theory and application; features lessons on probability and hypothesis testing, random variables, binomial and normal distributions, distributions with two random variables, sampling, regression, and nonparametric methods; and includes exercises.

"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...

This is a nontechnical guide to power analysis in research planning that provides users of applied statistics with the tools they need for more effective analysis. The second edition includes: a chapter covering power analysis in set correlation and multivariate methods; a chapter considering effect size, psychometric reliability, and the efficacy of "qualifying" dependent variables and; expanded power and sample size tables for multiple regression/correlation...

"There is a good chance this will be one of Bill's best episodes! In Probability, watch Bill make this complicated concept very simple to understand, while showing how it allows us to predict events"--Container.