Do busier hospitals have higher survival rates? How many trees are there on the planet? Why do old men have big ears? David Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions – questions that can only be addressed using statistical science.
The Art of Statistics
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Sir David John Spiegelhalter OBE is a British statistician and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Statistical laboratory in the University of Cambridge. He is one of the most cited and influential researchers in his field and was elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-2018.
This book is broken down into fourteen chapters, which include, among others: Why are we looking at data anyway; Populations and measurement; Putting probability and statistics together, and Algorithms, analytics and prediction. Tim Harford OBE, economic journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4s More or Less, states, ‘This marvellous book will transform your relationship with numbers that swirl around us’. In this book the author guides the reader through the essential principles needed in order to derive from data the knowledge that is needed. Included is a very helpful glossary, and a wonderful opening line in the conclusion, ‘To put it bluntly, statistics can be difficult’.
Author – David Spiegelhalter
Publisher – Pelican (an imprint of Penguin Books)
Format – Paperback
Pub date – 2020
ISBN – 9780241258767
Pages – 426
Dimensions – 110mm x 180mm
Weight – 261g
