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.
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.
發表於2024-11-07
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圖書標籤: 統計學 科普 統計 Statistics 數據科學 數學 數據 STATISTICS
Blinkist掃過。類似Lie with statistics,介紹瞭我們日常生活中常見的利用數據或者統計結果來達到自身特定目的小手段,例如平均的概念、因果性和關聯性、反復實驗直到得到想要的結果、數據的可視化展現、調查問捲上的文字遊戲等等。算是統計學科普類書籍,講述一些基本的邏輯概念。說到底,還是要獨立思考,帶著批判精神去看待數據和統計。
評分可以感受到作者本身是統計大牛,但是又可以深入淺齣地把這些概念娓娓道來,是兼具瞭科學性和故事性的一本好書。
評分好厲害,懂得如何講非常難的想法,without making use of mathematical formulae
評分A lifetime tool to understand the world a little better
評分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
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