The Art of Statistics
by David Spiegelhalter · David Spiegelhalter
Spiegelhalter uses real investigations, from surgical mortality to the Harold Shipman case, to explain how data becomes evidence. Readers come away understanding sampling, regression, uncertainty, and why statistical claims reported in the news so often mislead.
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