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“stephen senn”

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  • Dicing with Death

    Chance, Risk and Health

    by Stephen Senn ...
    If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job. Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He tackles big themes: ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Dicing with Death

    Living by Data

    by Stephen Senn ...
    As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical statistics and public health data have become staples of newsfeeds worldwide, with infection rates, deaths, case fatality and the mysterious R figure featuring regularly. However, we don't all have the statistical background needed to translate this information into knowledge. In this lively account, Stephen Senn explains these statistical phenomena ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily imprecise and involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the understanding and management of probabilities is central to much work in the sciences and economics.In this ... Read more

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  • Chancing It

    The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You

    by Robert Matthews ...
    Make your own luck by understanding probabilityOver the years, some very smart people have thought they understood the rules of chance?only to fail dismally. Whether you call it probability, risk, or uncertainty, the workings of chance often defy common sense. Fortunately, advances in math and science have revealed the laws of chance, and understanding those laws can help in your everyday life.In ... Read more

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  • The Art of Statistics

    Learning from Data

    by David Spiegelhalter ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    'A statistical national treasure' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by statistics. A tour de force' Popular ScienceDo busier hospitals have higher survival rates? How many trees are there on the planet? Why do old men have big ears? David Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Book of Why

    The New Science of Cause and Effect

    by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie ...
    An argument for how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence.**"Illuminating." —**New York Times**"Extraordinary." —**Science Friday“Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, once led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, with causal analysis taking center stage in AI and other ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Field Guide to Lies

    Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

    by Daniel J. Levitin ...
    **Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2017 National Business Book AwardShortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner Prize**From the bestselling author of The Organized Mind, the must-have book about how to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload.It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Irrationality

    by Stuart Sutherland ...
    Why do doctors, army generals, high-ranking government officials, and other people in positions of power make bad decisions that cause harm to others? On the other hand, why do people insist on sitting through an awful play or film just because the tickets were expensive?Irrational beliefs and behaviour are virtually universal. It is not only gamblers and parapsychologists that fall into simple ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Statistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David J. Hand ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light and enable understanding. And it sheds this light on all aspects of our lives, enabling astronomers to explore the origins of the universe, archaeologists to investigate ancient civilisations, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lady Tasting Tea

    How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

    by David Salsburg ...
    "A fascinating description of the kinds of people who interacted, collaborated, disagreed, and were brilliant in the development of statistics." —Barbara A. Bailar, Senior Vice-President, National Opinion Research CenterAt a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Statistical Significance

    How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

    by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    “McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Chances Are . . .

    Adventures in Probability

    by Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan ...
    A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanitys struggle against randomnessOur lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling-reluctantly-for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD