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On this episode...

But it's just chance, and you would expect that.

Truly large numbers of opportunities for this sort of thing to happen.

Sooner or later, it's going to happen.

That's David J. Hand. He is senior research investigator, an emeritus professor of mathematics

at Imperial College London, where he was the chair in statistics. He is also a fellow of the British

Academy and an honorary fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He has served twice as president of the Royal Statistical Society.

In 2002, he was awarded the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society.

He is good with numbers.

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