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> Hi there,
>
> I'm sorry to bother you kind folks with a non-technical
> question, but I'm rather desperate. I am a reference
> librarian for a research and engineering corporation and
> one of my engineers has asked me to find him a list of
> "frequency probabilities" (i.e., what are your odds of
> being struck by lightning, bit by a dog, attacked by
> killer bees, etc.) and I have been completely unsuccessful
> at finding this sort of thing anywhere on the Web. Surely
For many of these things it is not an easy task to define the event or
the sample space. However, if you just want anecdotal odds, there is
a book _What the Odds Are_ by Les Krantz, HarperCollins, 1992.
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