Statistics: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Statistics: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199233564

ISBN-10: 019923356X

ISBN-13: 9780199233564

Edition: 2008

Authors: David J. Hand

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Statistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of modern life. From randomized clinical trials in medical research, to statistical models of risk in banking and hedge fund industries, to the statistical tools used to probe vast astronomical databases, the field of statistics has become centrally important to how we understand our world. But the discipline underlying all these is not the dull statistics of the popular imagination. Long gone are the days of manual arithmetic manipulation. Nowadays statistics is a dynamic discipline, revolutionized by the computer, which uses advanced software tools to probe numerical data, seeking structures, patterns, and relationships. This…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Preface



Surrounded by Statistics



Simple descriptions



Collecting good data



Probability



Estimation and inference



Statistical models and methods



Statistical computing


Further reading


Index