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INDEX
INDEX
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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