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Each of us has some intuitive notion of what “probability” is. Everyday conversation is full of references to it: “He’ll probably return on Saturday.” “Maybe he won’t.” “The chances are she’ll forget.” “The odds on winning are small.”
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Anderson, T.W., Finn, J.D. (1996). Basic Ideas of Probability. In: The New Statistical Analysis of Data. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4000-6_7
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