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Expecting to Win

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We have made use in the preceding chapters of the frequentist concept of probability. Let us assume that, in a sequence of 8 tosses of a coin, we have obtained: heads, tails, tails, heads, heads, heads, tails, heads .

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(2008). Expecting to Win. In: Chance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74417-7_3

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