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 |