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Diaconis Persi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2006.00152.x
Subject(s) - dice , coin flipping , genealogy , computer science , classics , history , art , mathematics , statistics
In 1992 Persi Diaconis of Stanford University told the world just how many times a pack of cards should be shuffled. He is one of the more colourful of professors of statistics. He tells Julian Champkin about crooked dice, tossing coins and conjuring tricks—and how statistics makes sense of his world.