The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (Pelican Books) Paperback

Statistics appears here as a way of reasoning about evidence rather than a set of formulas to be memorised. David Spiegelhalter builds the subject up from real questions, such as how risky a treatment is, what a survey can honestly claim, and when a correlation means anything at all. Ideas including uncertainty, regression, probability and statistical significance arrive through worked examples drawn from published data rather than through derivations, so the mathematics stays light while the reasoning stays rigorous. This Pelican paperback runs to 448 pages. What you'll find in these pages: • Real datasets used to introduce each statistical idea • Guidance on reading risk, averages and percentages critically • Coverage of significance testing and the limits of what data proves • A 448-page Pelican paperback Written for students, analysts and anyone who meets numbers in the news, published by Pelican and available from Boipoka.