Official Report of the Proceedings of the Anti-lottery Democratic Convention, Held in the Hall of Th

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Anti-lottery Democratic Convention, Held in the Hall of Th
Author: Anti-Lottery Democratic Convention (
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019860205

An important historical document from the late 19th century, this report details the proceedings of the Anti-Lottery Democratic Convention held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1892. The convention was a critical moment in the fight against the corrupting influence of the Louisiana State Lottery, and this report provides valuable insight into the political climate of the era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

State Publications

State Publications
Author: Richard Rogers Bowker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 1899
Genre: State government publications
ISBN:

The New England Watch and Ward Society

The New England Watch and Ward Society
Author: Paul Charles Kemeny
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190844396

The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of American Protestantism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By suppressing obscene literature, gambling, and prostitution, the moral reform organization embodied Protestant efforts to shape public morality in an increasing intellectually and culturally diverse society.

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability
Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1466575573

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.