Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071626530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.. His blog, "Junk Cha
His blog, "Junk Charts," pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. About the AuthorKaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He i
"Numbers and psychology: Two things that rule the world and a book that addresses both!" according to Xavier. Such an interesting and fun read, which I'm both a math/numbers nerd and a psychology geek Finding something that hits both ends of the spectrum while not making it feel like a textbook, well - It certainly deserves 5/5 from me. I am not yet done with . Dont bother after reading freakonomics Bought this after looking at all of the great reviews and expecting to be enlightneted as I was after reading Freakonmics, however, this book only touched on a handful of topics, and when it did, it just repeated itself over and over. Seemed like the b. Average I must confess I had higher expectations from this book coming from the reviews and the title. I thought it should give more in depth information about different strategies on statistics and less story telling. I wanted to read a book about statistics
WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU'LL WIN THE LOTTERY?How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World? Who decides that “standardized tests” are fair? Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps? What does it mean, statistically, to be an “Average Joe”?NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way. What you learn may surprise you, amuse you, or even enrage you. If you want to understand how to use statistics, how to think with numbers and yet to do this without getting lost in equations, if you've been looking for the book to unlock the door to logical thinking about problems, well, you will be pleased to know that you are holding that book in your hands." Daniel Finkelstein, Executive Editor, The Times of London"I thoroughly enjoyed this accessible book and enthusiastically recommend it to anyone looking to understand and appreciate the role of statistics and data analysis in solving problems and in creating a better world." Michael Sherman, Texas A&M University, American S