Overview

Sharpen your probability skills What are the chances you'll ace your next exam? Land that promotion? Beat the house in Vegas? With Probability Workbook For Dummies, you'll stop guessing and start knowing. This book is your practical toolkit for learning to calculate the probability of, well, anything. Through crystal-clear explanations and real-world scenarios, you'll discover how probability shapes every decision you make—and how understanding it gives you a serious edge. You'll practice set theory, counting, permutations, combinations, conditional expectations, probability modeling, and beyond, and strengthen your analytical muscles with hands-on exercises that transform abstract concepts into practical skills. Probability Workbook For Dummies will help you play your cards right! Get clear explanations and examples of the key concepts of probability Boost your problem-solving abilities Gain a fundamental understanding of how probability is used in daily life Work through practice problems to solidify what you've learned This Dummies guide is a great resource for high school and college students enrolled in statistics or probability courses. It's also helpful for professionals who need a refresher, as well as anyone interested in deepening their understanding of probability.

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Author:   Deborah J. Rumsey (Ohio State University)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   For Dummies
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781394368167

ISBN 10:   139436816
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 April 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part 1: The Certainty of Uncertainty: Probability Basics 5 CHAPTER 1: Seeing Probability in Everyday Life 7 CHAPTER 2: Teaming up with Probability Terms and Rules 15 CHAPTER 3: Picturing Probabilities: Venn Diagrams, Trees, and Bayes' Theorem 29 Part 2: Counting on Probability and Betting to Win 43 CHAPTER 4: Setting the Contingency Table with Probabilities 45 CHAPTER 5: Unraveling Counting Rules 59 CHAPTER 6: Against All Odds: Probability in Gaming 75 Part 3: From A to Binomial: Basic Probability Distributions 89 CHAPTER 7: Dealing with Discrete Probability Distributions 91 CHAPTER 8: Juggling Success and Failure with the Binomial Distribution 101 CHAPTER 9: Normalizing the Normal Distribution 111 CHAPTER 10: Approximating a Binomial with a Normal Distribution 125 CHAPTER 11: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 135 CHAPTER 12: Probability's Role in Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests 147 Part 4: Taking It up a Notch: Advanced Probability Models 157 CHAPTER 13: Working with the Poisson (a Nonpoisonous) Distribution 159 CHAPTER 14: Covering All Angles of the Geometric Distribution 171 CHAPTER 15: Making a Positive Out of the Negative Binomial Distribution 183 CHAPTER 16: Not Getting Hyper about the Hypergeometric Distribution 193 Part 5: For the Hotshots: Continuous Probability Models 205 CHAPTER 17: Staying in Line with the Continuous Uniform Distribution 207 CHAPTER 18: Exposing the Exponential Distribution (and Its Relationship to Poisson) 221 Part 6: The Part of Tens 233 CHAPTER 19: Top Ten Probability Mistakes 235 CHAPTER 20: Ten Probability Distributions to Compare 243 Appendix A: Tables for Reference 255 Index 265

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Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a Professor of Teaching Practice at The Ohio State University. She is the ­ co-founder of CAUSE: The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. Dr. Rumsey is a Fellow of the American Statistical Asso­ciation and author of more than ten For Dummies titles.

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