Statistics: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions - D. J. Hand
Statistics: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions - D. J. Hand Statistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of modern life. But the discipline underlying all these is…
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Statistics: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions - D. J. Hand
Statistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of modern life. But the discipline underlying all these is not the dull statistics of the popular imagination. 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.
Nowadays statistics is a dynamic discipline, revolutionized by the computer, which uses advanced software tools to probe numerical data, seeking structures, patterns, and relationships. Long gone are the days of manual arithmetic manipulation. This Very Short Introduction sets the study of statistics in context, describing its history and giving examples of its impact, summarizes methods of gathering and evaluating data, and explains the role