Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk and Statistics (Paperback, 2)

A brief history of chance - What are the chances? assigning probabilities - Choice and chance: permutations and combinations - Tossing coins and having babies - Rolling dice - Gambling for fun: lotteries and football pools - Serious gambling: roulette, cards and horse racing - Balls, birthdays and coincidences - Conditional probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes - Puzzling probabilities - Taking risks - Statistics, statisticians and medicine - Alternative therapies: panaceas or placebos.