To Think Like a Statistician
$49.99
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
Why you don’t need to be a statistician to think like one.
A fire hose of information bombards us every day, and some of it is even true. Is Bitcoin a good investment? Are hurricanes getting worse? Is the measles vaccine dangerous? Separating the wheat from the chaff is what statisticians do – and there’s lots of chaff. To Think Like a Statistician shares the skills statisticians use to sift through evidence, learn from experience, and extract meaning and kno…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691245829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691245827 |
| Author: | Bradley Efron |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Using lots of contemporary data that will interest the reader, author [Bradley Efron] explains how statistical inference emerges from data… . The goal of the book is to make the reader ‘a more sophisticated consumer of information,’ an informed skeptic of claims.”—Paul J. Cambell & Eric S. Rosenthal, Mathematics Magazine
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron is the Max H. Stein Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University and a recipient of the National Medal of Science. His books include Exponential Families in Theory and Practice and Large-Scale Inference. He is a MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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