David 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. He was also elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-18. In addition to presenting documentaries on BBC4, he has appeared on Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Horizon, and the Life Scientific, and he has been a guest columnist in the Times, Guardian, and New Scientist. Spiegelhalter was knighted for his services to statistics in 2014. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
发表于2025-03-28
The Art of Statistics 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 统计学 科普 统计 Statistics 数据科学 数学 数据 STATISTICS
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever.
In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter guides the reader through the essential principles we need in order to derive knowledge from data. Drawing on real world problems to introduce conceptual issues, he shows us how statistics can help us determine the luckiest passenger on the Titanic, whether serial killer Harold Shipman could have been caught earlier, and if screening for ovarian cancer is beneficial.
How many trees are there on the planet? Do busier hospitals have higher survival rates? Why do old men have big ears? Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science.
可以感受到作者本身是统计大牛,但是又可以深入浅出地把这些概念娓娓道来,是兼具了科学性和故事性的一本好书。
评分挺不错的统计入门。我很少通读类似的书,所以缺乏横向比较。就感觉它在“数据是什么、从哪里来、怎么用”这些基本问题上比国内绝大多数教材写得好,更具人文性。
评分例子都特别好,而且非常喜欢作者这种学科史的视角
评分It’s not only about statistics, but a guide-book of ‘how to interpret/understand your data’ for all the researchers. I would strongly recommend all the beginners read it as early as possible and re-read it when you feel stuck in your research
评分挺不错的统计入门。我很少通读类似的书,所以缺乏横向比较。就感觉它在“数据是什么、从哪里来、怎么用”这些基本问题上比国内绝大多数教材写得好,更具人文性。
The Art of Statistics 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书