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The Art of Randomness: Prof. Jeffrey Rosenthal on Probability & Statistics
Do you use a fitness tracker? Do you ever read or leave reviews on Trip Advisor or Amazon? Have you read the weather forecast for today? And what about polls for elections? All these are just a few examples of the use of statistics. It seems that statistics, data and algorithms are increasingly used to inform, educate and persuade us.
Then on another level how can we make sense of the odds of something. Could be the odds of winning the jackpot on a lottery or even the chance of being struck by lightning? We may regard ourselves as lucky or unlucky. So the big question is on one hand we have…
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