Reading Between the Numbers
Subtitle: Statistical Thinking in Everyday Life
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: December 20, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780071364003
Description: A lively and informal introduction to statistics in everyday life. From physics to football, marketing to meteorology, virtually every aspect of modern life involves numbers. But, as statistician/psychologist Joseph Tal writes in this offbeat excursion through the world of statistics, "The numbers must be made to talk, to tell us their story." And that, of course, is where statistics comes in: it is the art and science of getting numbers to reveal present realities and future probabilities.