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Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Some basic concepts Concept of an event Independence Expectation Calculation of simple probabilities Probability and odds Bayes Theorem Chapter 3. Counting methods Combinations and permutations Computation of permutations Computation of combinations How many aces are out? Chapter 4. Concept of a process Chapter 5. Some Paradoxes Chapter 6. Distributions Chapter 11. Mathematical aids to decision making Optimization Theory Decision Theory Game Theory Prisoner's Delimma Chapter 12. Psychology of Irrational Behavior Availability Error Chapter 15. Statistics What is statistics? Chapter 20. General Linear Model Basic model Influence Misc. topics Gary Carson's sites Poker sites Home page Math and Poker Blog Poker Culture Blog Poker Road Trips blog Playing no limit poker blog Road to the 2007 WSOP blog No Limit Poker website List of poker blogs Poker dealer employment Poker Strategy and Tips Articles Poker and Math List of poker blogs Poker dealer employment My Ebooks The Complete Book of Hold'Em Poker (electronic edition) The Complete Book of Casino Poker (electronic edition Other sites Probability Overnight travel blog Free books Politics Drinking Espresso Basic Probability Off Topic Rant Off Topic Rant Blog Top Colleges Princeton American Tradition blog I get my own business cards from them and it's a legit offer. They just charge for postage and it's quality work. Secretary Problem Optimal Stopping and Applications, by Tom Ferguson, an online textbook. Best-Choice problems with dependent criteria, by Tom Ferguson A Natural Vatiation of the Standard Secretary Problem, by Shoou-Re Hsiau and Jiing-Ru Yang, Statisca Sinica, Vol 10, 2000. Decision-Making on the Full Information Secretary Problem, by Michael D. Lee, Tess A. O'Connor, and Matthew B. Welsh Optimal Stopping Constants, by Steven Finch. Buy it now The Complete Book of Hold'Em Poker

Chance Chance isn’t something that the human mind seems to deal with very well. Cause has an effect and effect has a cause. That’s the relation that seems to make our minds comfortable and there’s no room for a concept of chance in that straight-forward Aristotelian view of cause and effect. People have always observed things that could be explained by the concept of chance, but they haven’t always invoked that explanation. For centuries, many centuries, complex events without an obvious cause were explained by reliance on religious explanations, by the invocation of the concept of a Supreme Being. Things didn’t just happen; they happed because God willed them to happen. You could determine whether or not someone was a witch by casting lots, God would tell you their guilt or innocence by how the dice landed. Don’t laugh. Peoples lives where once held in the balance depending on the outcome of chance events, but nobody was willing to admit that the outcomes hadn’t been predetermined by God. The development of the concept of chance events was a major intellectual development. Previous Next Enter your search terms Submit search form

Updates to this website will be announced on the mailing list holdem Click to subscribe to holdem Alspach's Mathematics and Poker Page Brian Alspach used to write a regular column on combinatorics for Poker Digest. He's a retired math professor from Simon Fraser University. Tom Ferguson's home page He's a math ;professor at UCLA and Chris Ferguson's father. MathPages.com A collection of straight-forward introductions to various topics in mathematics and recreational mathematics. Kelly Betting