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What Are the Chances?
Musings on everyday probability
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Hospital infections-what are the chances?
December 1, 2007
By Alan J. Salzberg
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For those of us with aging parents, visits to the hospital can become somewhat routine, unfortunately. An overnight stay for minor surgery, as my father recently had, isn't particularly worrisome--exc...
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Thanksgiving Brothers
November 22, 2007
By Alan J. Salzberg
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I had some role in coming up with these statistics in the New York Times, though I thought it was more li...
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Lost luggage - 1 in 138?
November 22, 2007
By Alan J. Salzberg
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Thanksgiving is the beginning of peak travel season, and what did I read this morning? That 1 in 138 checked bags gets lost....
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