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- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
9 - The Things that Bug Us*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Statistical models of processes where random events have an effect on partly random subsequent events are covered in this chapter. The sequence of eruptions of the geyser Old Faithful is taken as a simple example to illustrate Markov Chains. Infectious disease models are then covered and the history of various attempts at modelling them from the early twentieth century onwards is covered. Modelling religious conversion as a stochastic process is treated briefly.
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- Dicing with DeathLiving by Data, pp. 178 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022