TheArtofStatistics_LearningFromData

Contents LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Getting Things in Proportion: Categorical Data and Percentages CHAPTER 2 Summarizing and Communicating Numbers. Lots of Numbers CHAPTER 3 Why Are We Looking at Data Anyway? Populations and Measurement CHAPTER 4 What Causes What? CHAPTER 5 Modelling Relationships Using Regression CHAPTER 6 Algorithms, Analytics and Prediction CHAPTER 7 How Sure Can We Be About What Is Going On? Estimates and Intervals CHAPTER 8 Probability – the Language of Uncertainty and Variability CHAPTER 9 Putting Probability and Statistics Together CHAPTER 10 Answering Questions and Claiming Discoveries CHAPTER 11 Learning from Experience the Bayesian Way CHAPTER 12 How Things Go Wrong CHAPTER 13 How We Can Do Statistics Better CHAPTER 14 In Conclusion GLOSSARY NOTES INDEX About the Author Sir David John Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Spiegelhalter is one of the most cited and influential researchers in his field, and was elected as P......