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Statistics in Action - A Canadian Outlook (Paperback)
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Statistics in Action - A Canadian Outlook (Paperback)
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Commissioned by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), Statistics
in Action: A Canadian Outlook helps both general readers and users
of statistics better appreciate the scope and importance of
statistics. It presents the ways in which statistics is used while
highlighting key contributions that Canadian statisticians are
making to science, technology, business, government, and other
areas. The book emphasizes the role and impact of computing in
statistical modeling and analysis, including the issues involved
with the huge amounts of data being generated by automated
processes. The first two chapters review the development of
statistics as a discipline in Canada and describe some major
contributions to survey methodology made by Statistics Canada, one
of the world's premier official statistics agencies. The book next
discusses how statistical methodologies, such as functional data
analysis and the Metropolis algorithm, are applied in a wide
variety of fields, including risk management and genetics. It then
focuses on the application of statistical methods in medicine and
public health as well as finance and e-commerce. The remainder of
the book addresses how statistics is used to study critical
scientific areas, including difficult-to-access populations,
endangered species, climate change, and agricultural forecasts.
About the SSCFounded in Montreal in 1972, the SSC is the main
professional organization for statisticians and related
professionals in Canada. Its mission is to promote the use and
development of statistics and probability. The SSC publishes the
bilingual quarterly newsletter SSC Liaison and the peer-reviewed
scientific journal The Canadian Journal of Statistics. More
information can be found at www.ssc.ca.
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