A lively and informative guide to statistics in the age of data science from the President of the Royal Statistical Society.
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 President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-18.
David Spiegelhalter is probably the greatest living statistical
communicator; more than that, he's one of the great communicators
in any field. This marvellous book will transform your relationship
with the numbers that swirl all around us. Read it and learn.
*Tim Harford*
There is something in here for everyone ... A call to arms for
greater societal data literacy ... Spiegelhalter's work serves as a
reminder that there are passionate, self-aware statisticians who
can argue eloquently that their discipline is needed now more than
ever.
*Financial Times*
Shines a light on how we can use the ever-growing deluge of data to
improve our understanding of the world . . . The Art of Statistics
will serve students well. And it will be a boon for journalists
eager to use statistics responsibly - along with anyone who wants
to approach research and its reportage with healthy scepticism.
*Nature*
What David Spiegelhalter does here is provide a very thorough
introductory grounding in statistics without making use of
mathematical formulae. And it's remarkable. Spiegelhalter is warm
and encouraging - it's a genuinely enjoyable read ... This book
should be required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics
and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by
statistics. A tour de force.
*Popular Science*
The Art of Statistics is in the great educational tradition of its
publishing imprint, Pelican Books: an attempt to get everyone up to
speed with the practical uses of statistics, without pages of
terrifying equations or Greek letters. In a series of spry, airy
chapters, he succeeds fabulously ... Lucid and readable. In an age
of scientific clickbait, 'big data' and personalised medicine, this
is a book that nearly everyone would benefit from reading.
*Spectator*
Important and comprehensive
*New Yorker*
This is an excellent book. Spiegelhalter is great at explaining
difficult ideas . . . Yes, statistics can be difficult. But much
less difficult if you read this book.
*Evening Standard*
Like the fictional investigator Sherlock Holmes, Spiegelhalter
takes readers on a trail to challenge methodology and stats thrown
at us by the media and others. But where other authors have
attempted this and failed, he is inventive and clever in picking
the right examples that spark the reader's interest to become
active on their own.
*Engineering and Technology*
Do you trust headlines telling you . . . that bacon, ham and
sausages carry the same cancer risk as cigarettes? No, nor do I.
That is why we need a book like this that explains how such
implausible nonsense arises in the first place. Written by a master
of the subject . . . this book tells us to examine our assumptions.
Bravo.
*Standpoint*
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