An Elementary Approach to Thinking Under Uncertainty


Authors: 
Beyth-Marom, R., Dekel, S., Gombo, R., & Shaked, M.
Editors: 
Lichtenstein, S., Marom, B., & Beyth-Marom, R.
Type: 
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Year: 
1985
Publisher: 
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Place: 
Hillsdale, NJ
Abstract: 

The present book presents a translation of the Hebrew text, Thinking Under Uncertainty, rewritten to include material more suited to American adults than to Israeli school children. However, the elementary approach used in the original is retained here. Although the topic of uncertainty is an advanced topic within mathematics, this book should be accessible to any adult with a minimal knowledge of arithmetic, that is, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the calculation of percentages.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education