probability and statistics

Table of Contents

Introduction
Early probability
- Games of chance
- Risks, expectations, and fair contracts
- Probability as the logic of uncertainty
- The probability of causes
The rise of statistics
- Political arithmetic
- Social numbers
- A new kind of regularity
- Statistical physics
The spread of statistical mathematics
Statistical theories in the sciences
- Biometry
- Samples and experiments
- The modern role of statistics

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normal approximation to the binomial distribution

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normal probability distribution

Figure 1: Probability of equally likely possible outcomes.

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