Digressions in Elementary Probability: The Unexpected in Medicine, Sports, and Society

This book is about the interplay between chance and order, but limited to mostly binary events, such as success/failure as they occur in a diversity of interesting applications. The goal is to entertain and instruct with topics that range from unexpected encounters with chance in everyday experiences, to significant “must know” insights regarding human health and other concerns in the social sciences.

The first section provides the tools for being able to discuss random sequences with hints...