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Index

amazon.com , [*]
auction strategies
baseball , [*]
basketball
Basque language
Basque people
batting average
batting orders
Beat the Dealer , [*]
Bernoulli trials
betting advice
betting systems
blackjack , [*]
board games
breakage
card counting , [*]
casino gambling , [*]
chutes and ladders
Clyde
coin flips
college basketball
Democrats
doubling system, roulette
ebay.com
econometrics
efficiency of markets
election outcome prediction
elegance in software
Eskual Herria
ETA terrorist group
Eudaemonic Pie
Excel
Fair's economic models
Fermat, Pierre de
first name distribution
football
gambling systems
gambling, legal
Guernica
Guggenheim Bilbao
horse racing
HTML
Internet
Internet Gambling Prohibition Act
Java
Joey
last name distribution
linear congruential generator
lottery numbers , [*]
lottery pools
Méré, Chevalier de
Mailler, Roger
Martingale system
Maven
military draft
monopoly
movie idea
Nagarajan, Meena
name distribution
NCAA tournament
O'Hare straddle
odds board
Old Farmer's Almanac
overfitting data
Palm Beach jai-alai
Pamplona
parimutuel wagering
party classification
Pascal, Blaise
Pepe's Green Card
Perl
physicists
Picasso, Pablo
population demographics
probability
projects
pseudo-random numbers
random number generation , [*]
random walks
Republicans
RH negative blood
roulette
roulette wheel , [*]
San Sebastian
screen savers
software engineering
standard deviation
Stark, Gene
statistics
stock market
stock market prediction
syndicate betting
tapas
Thorp, Edward , [*]
trifecta bet
vacation in the Basque country
variance
Vietnam war
Vlah, Dario
weather prediction
World Wide Web




I hope you have enjoyed this excerpt from Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win!, by Steven Skiena, copublished by Cambridge University Press and the Mathematical Association of America.

This is a book about a gambling system that works. It tells the story of how the author used computer simulation and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully -- increasing his initial stake by over 500% in one year! His method can work for anyone: at the end of the book he tells the best way to watch jai-alai, and how to bet on it. With humor and enthusiasm, Skiena details a life-long fascination with the computer prediction of sporting events. Along the way, he discusses other gambling systems, both successful and unsuccessful, for such games as lotto, roulette, blackjack, and the stock market. Indeed, he shows how his jai-alai system functions just like a miniature stock trading system.

Do you want to learn about program trading systems, the future of Internet gambling, and the real reason brokerage houses don't offer mutual funds that invest at racetracks and frontons? How mathematical models are used in political polling? The difference between correlation and causation? If you are curious about gambling and mathematics, odds are this is the book for you!

This book is available in both hardcover and paperback.



Steve Skiena
2001-06-04