
Statistics And Truth: Putting Chance To Work (2nd Edition)
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
2nd Edition
Published on 5. August 1997
Book
Hardback
212 pages
978-981-02-3111-8 (ISBN)
Description
Written by one of the top most statisticians with experience in diverse fields of applications of statistics, the book deals with the philosophical and methodological aspects of information technology, collection and analysis of data to provide insight into a problem, whether it is scientific research, policy making by government or decision making in our daily lives.The author dispels the doubts that chance is an expression of our ignorance which makes accurate prediction impossible and illustrates how our thinking has changed with quantification of uncertainty by showing that chance is no longer the obstructor but a way of expressing our knowledge. Indeed, chance can create and help in the investigation of truth. It is eloquently demonstrated with numerous examples of applications that statistics is the science, technology and art of extracting information from data and is based on a study of the laws of chance. It is highlighted how statistical ideas played a vital role in scientific and other investigations even before statistics was recognized as a separate discipline and how statistics is now evolving as a versatile, powerful and inevitable tool in diverse fields of human endeavor such as literature, legal matters, industry, archaeology and medicine.Use of statistics to the layman in improving the quality of life through wise decision making is emphasized.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3111-8 (9789810231118)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Uncertainty, randomness and creation of new knowledge; taming of uncertainty - evolution of statistics; principles and strategies of data analysis - cross examination of data; principles and strategies of data analysis - weighted and clouded distributions; statistics - an inevitable instrument in search of truth; public understanding of statistics or learning from numbers.