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Something Doesn't Add Up Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

Paperback • 2021 • English

Something Doesn't Add Up Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

By Paul Goodwin

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About the book

Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense. Wry, witty and humane, Goodwin explains mathematical subtleties so painlessly that you hardly need to think about...Show more

Social research and statistics
Probability and statistics
Bayesian inference

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ISBN

9781788162593

Publisher

Profile Books Limited

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

Something Doesn't Add Up Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

Format

Paperback

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