Last month, I mentioned that we have a new book coming. Its title is Probability and Statistics for 12-Year-Olds (and Maybe You), the author is David Sklansky, and I served as technical consultant. This book is exactly what the title says it is. That is, it’s an easy approach to probability and statistics problems that many students and gamblers/poker players should find useful.
Anyway, to give you a better idea as to exactly what this book is about, the Table of Contents is below, and it should be available from Amazon in early November.
Table of Contents
| About David Sklansky | iii |
| About Mason Malmuth | v |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Chapter One: Chances of Winning Both Bets | 3 |
| Chapter Two: One or the Other Succeeds | 7 |
| Chapter Three: Ways to Think About Probability | 11 |
| Chapter Four: Expected Value: What’s a Bet Worth? | 15 |
| Chapter Five: So Why Do We Multiply? | 17 |
| Chapter Six: Some Problems We Can Solve With Combinations/Counting | 21 |
| Chapter Seven: Permutations and Combinations | 25 |
| Chapter Eight: Averages: Mean, Median, and Weighted | 31 |
| Chapter Nine: The Standard Deviation and The Bell Curve | 35 |
| Chapter Ten: Calculating the Standard Deviation of a List of Numbers | 43 |
| Chapter Eleven: Bayes’ Theorem | 45 |
| Chapter Twelve: Widespread Erroneous Misuse of Probability/Statistics/Logic to Bolster A Case | 51 |
| Chapter Thirteen: Several Clever and Cute Probability Situations | 53 |
| The Birthday Problem | 54 |
| The Problem of the Misaddressed Letters | 55 |
| Using the “Point Seven” Technique for Real Probability Questions | 57 |
| Living One More Year | 58 |
| Every Possible Combination | 59 |
| Slot Machines and Half Lives | 60 |
| Three Math Questions Needing Almost No Math | 62 |
| Finding the Best in a Huge Crowd | 64 |
| Chapter Fourteen: Several Clever and Not So Cute Probability Situations | 67 |
| Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Medical Tests | 67 |
| Type I vs Type II Errors | 68 |
| Three Crime and Punishment Scenarios | 69 |
| Me Too | 72 |
| Coincidences | 72 |
| Chapter Fifteen: A Little More Math | 75 |
| Chapter Sixteen: Short Descriptions of Some Things Not Covered in This Book | 81 |
| Chapter Seventeen: 20 Questions and 20 Detailed Answers | 87 |
