The art of statistics : how to learn from data / David Spiegelhalter

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Introduction -- Chapter 14 Getting things in proportion : categorical data and percentages -- Chapter 2 Summarizing and communicating numbers. Lots of numbers -- Chapter 3 Why are we looking at data anyway? populations and measurement -- Chapter 4 what causes what? Chapter 5 Modelling relationships using regression -- Chapter 6 Algorithms, analytics and prediction -- Chapter 7 How sure can we be about what is going on? estimates and intervals -- Chapter 8 Probability - the language of uncertainty and variability -- Chapter 9 Putting probability and statistics together -- Chapter 10 Answering questions and claiming discoveries -- Chapter 11 Learning from experience the Bayesian way -- Chapter 12 How things go wrong -- Chapter 13 How we can so statistics better -- Chapter 14 In conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.