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The art of statistics : learning from data / David Spiegelhalter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [London] UK : Pelican, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. ; casedContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0241398630
  • 9780241398630
  • 9780241258767
  • 0241258766
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 23
LOC classification:
  • .S654 2019
Contents:
Getting things in proportion: categorical data and percentages -- Summarizing and communicating numbers. Lots of numbers -- Why are we looking at data anyway? Populations and measurements -- What causes what? -- Modelling relationships using regression -- Algorithims, analytics and prediction -- How sure can we be about what is going on? Estimates and intervals -- Probability the language of uncertainty and variability -- Putting probability and statistics together -- Answering questions and claiming discoveries -- Learning from experience the Bayesian Way -- How things go wrong -- How we can do statistics better -- In conclusion.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Getting things in proportion: categorical data and percentages -- Summarizing and communicating numbers. Lots of numbers -- Why are we looking at data anyway? Populations and measurements -- What causes what? -- Modelling relationships using regression -- Algorithims, analytics and prediction -- How sure can we be about what is going on? Estimates and intervals -- Probability the language of uncertainty and variability -- Putting probability and statistics together -- Answering questions and claiming discoveries -- Learning from experience the Bayesian Way -- How things go wrong -- How we can do statistics better -- In conclusion.

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