Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities - Listen -

Jeffrey Rosenthal on The Curious World of Probabilities

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The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improbable number of lottery retailers were winning major prizes in Ontario - Jeffrey Rosenthal guides us through the maze of numbers and percentages to show us to how calculate correct probabilities.

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