Statistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of
modern life. From randomized clinical trials in medical research,
to statistical models of risk in banking and hedge fund industries,
to the statistical tools used to probe vast astronomical databases,
the field of statistics has become centrally important to how we
understand our world. But the discipline underlying all these is
not the dull statistics of the popular imagination. Long gone are
the days of manual arithmetic manipulation. Nowadays statistics is
a dynamic discipline, revolutionized by the computer, which uses
advanced software tools to probe numerical data, seeking
structures, patterns, and relationships. This Very Short
Introduction sets the study of statistics in context, describing
its history and giving examples of its impact, summarizes methods
of gathering and evaluating data, and explains the role played by
the science of chance, of probability, in statistical methods. The
book also explores deep philosophical issues of induction--how we
use statistics to discern the true nature of reality from the
limited observations we necessarily must make.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
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