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Central to the study of statistics is the concept of probability, which may be difficult for students of the physical sciences to grasp, because of their deterministic science background. In this chapter we look at the ideas of discrete probability and develop these into continuous probability distributions in the following chapter.
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© 1974 Roger Till
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Till, R. (1974). Probability. In: Statistical Methods for the Earth Scientist. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15536-1_2
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