He is the former president of the Royal Statistical Society and the chief scientific adviser to Winton Capital Management, one of Europe’s most successful algorithmic-trading hedge funds. Hand is emeritus professor of mathematics and a senior research investigator at Imperial College London. As well as offering information about the book itself, the site contains information and articles about various aspects of probability theory and statistics.ĭavid J. This website has been created to accompany and support the latest book from Professor David Hand – “The Improbability Principle”. And the improbability principle had come into play: the Virginia lottery’s four numbers just happened to be the ones which were due to come up in the Oregon lottery. By accident they’d pasted in the winning numbers from the Virginia lottery, instead of from the preceding day’s Oregon lottery. When the police went to investigate they were told that the newspaper’s computer had crashed just hours before it was due to be printed, so they’d had to recreate the paper in a rush. Except for the fact that the newspaper was printed before the lottery numbers were drawn. On 3 July 2000, the Washington newspaper The Columbian printed the Pick 4 Oregon Lottery results: 6, 8, 5, 5.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |