A Mathematical Perspective on Gambling
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This paper presents some basic topics in probability and statistics, including sample spaces, probabilistic events, expectations, the binomial and normal distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, Bayesian analysis, and statistical hypothesis testing. These topics are applied to gambling games involving dice, cards, and coins.
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