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INDEX
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                     Actuaries 185, 210                   de Fermat, Pierre 21
                     Addition rules 43                    de Mere, Chevalier 20–21
                       mutually exclusive events 44       de Moivre, Abraham 21, 174
                       nonmutually exclusive events 44    Dependent events 57
                     Astragalus 41                        Dice, history of 41–42
                     Average 83, 121, 148–149             Discrete probability distributions 115
                       long run 83
                       mean 83, 121, 148
                                                          Ebbinghaus, Hermann 175
                       median 148
                                                          Empirical probability 11–13
                       mode 149
                                                          Endowment policy 215
                                                          Events 2
                     Bayes’ theorem 249–251
                                                            complement of 7
                     Beneficiary 215
                                                            compound 3
                     Bimodal 149
                                                            dependent 57
                     Binomial distribution 117–120
                                                            independent 57
                       mean 121–122
                                                            mutually exclusive 44
                       standard deviation 122–123
                                                            nonmutually exclusive 44
                     Binomial experiment 117
                                                            simple 3
                                                          Expectation 83–87
                     Cardano, Giralamo 20                 Expected value 83, 121
                     Cards, history of 42
                     Chuck-a-luck 86–87
                     Classical probability 3–7            Factorial 97–98
                     Combination 102–103                  Fey Manufacturing Company 21
                     Combination rule 103–104             Frequency distribution 11
                     Complement 7                         Fundamental counting rule 95–96
                     Compound events 3
                     Conditional probability 62–67        Galileo, Galilei 42
                     Continuous probability distribution 115  Galton, Francis 176
                     Counting rules 94–109                Game 187

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