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Question: How do you work - apart from maths do you use probability - percentages or does it all come down to chance?
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Asked by Tesla_Voltage to Liz on 21 Jun 2017.Question: How do you work - apart from maths do you use probability - percentages or does it all come down to chance?
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christldonnelly commented on :
My graduate work was all in biostatistics. We use probability as part of statistical analysis all of the time. What is the chance that this epidemic get worse in the next week? What is the probability that an outbreak in one region or country will spread to another area? We’ve looked at this for several different diseases from the 2009 pandemic influenza strain spreading out of Mexico to Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) spreading of out of the affected Middle East region.
I didn’t study statistics at school – at all. I don’t know if that has changed by now in the US (where I went to school) but I’m really happy to see statistics and probability and statistics taught in schools in the UK. My 11 year old has already started to look at presenting data in histograms.