Leighton Vaughan Williams

Probability, Choice, and Reason (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book should serve as an invaluable and fascinating resource for university, college, and high school students who wish to extend their reading, as well as for teachers and lecturers who want to liven up their courses while retaining academic rigour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000458879
• Artikelnr.: 62492869

Autorenporträt

Leighton Vaughan Williams, PhD, FHEA, is Professor of Economics and Finance at Nottingham Business School, as well as Director of the Betting Research Unit and of the Political Forecasting Unit. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of probability, risk, and choice under uncertainty, and given expert witness evidence before national and international courts of law and select committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords. He has served as a senior adviser to UK Government departments, and currently teaches undergraduates and postgraduates how to apply Bayesian methods, and the tools of probability and statistics, to real-world problems and paradoxes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Probability
Evidence
and Reason 2. Probability Paradoxes 3. Probability and Choice 4. Probability
Games
and Gambling 5. Probability
Truth
and Reason 6. Anomalies of Choice and Reason 7. Game Theory
Probability
and Practice 8. Further Ideas and Exercises Solutions to Exercises