Probability For Dummies

Es ist ein großartiges Buch für jemanden, der nie Statistik gelernt hat und sich ein solides, aber grundlegendes Wissen auf diesem Gebiet aneignen möchte.

Very user friendly and comfortable to read. The book is giving me a clear understanding of probability which I always had trouble with and will need to pass for my undergraduate bachelor's degree program.

This is one of the few books that I have bought from Amazon and the book has arrived damaged. When I first took the book out of the package, I noticed that part of the back cover was bent. It is only a small bend but I have never seen this on any of the other books I have purchased from Amazon. Still, I am happy with this book.

I am doing a maths degree, and had to do a module in probability. I am rubbish at probability, made worse by being a mature student and having cobwebs instead of a grasp of probability. What this book will not do is help with the formulas that under pin probability. It might mention them, and even use them, but it is very basic in that aspect. What this book will help with is the concepts behind probability. I didn't have a clue about probability, everyone on my course had done the basics in their A level maths, where I was stuck with everything. This book showed me how to draw probability trees and how they work. That alone helped me pass the module, I wouldn't use the formulas for Total Probability, I would draw a huge tree and work everything out on that. The book tells you when to add probabilities together, and when to multiply them, which was something I could not wrap my head around. It explains conditional probability without using all the maths notation that fried my brain in lectures. By using the concepts in this book to learn what was going on, I was able to get to grips with the maths behind probability and pass the module, fingers crossed with a first! As the title says, the book is for dummies so do not expect any thing else and if you have a basic understanding of probability I would look for another book. As I was clueless, and this book helped me, I'll give it 5 stars. Update: I got a first in my probability module and I put it down to a couple of days spent reading this book.

Very well written book with detailed explanations. Lady mathematician author gave the best examples clearly showing her superior understanding of the subject in comparison to other more superficial treatments.