What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear

Learn how to understand the random factors behind almost everything—from the combinations of genes that produced you to the odds of how long you'll have to wait at a bus stop. In What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear, award-winning Professor Michael Starbird makes the secret of numbers come alive for nonmathematicians. He picks intriguing, useful, and entertaining examples to illustrate the fundamental concepts of probability and teaches you how to apply probability to areas of your life ranging from physics to biology to finance; understand the nature of randomness and probabilistic reasoning; and much more.