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Statistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback) Loot Price: R267
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Statistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)

David J. Hand

Series: Very Short Introductions

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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 style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Very Short Introductions
Release date: October 2008
First published: November 2008
Authors: David J. Hand
Dimensions: 172 x 110 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923356-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
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LSN: 0-19-923356-X
Barcode: 9780199233564

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