Mark Prell

Gebundenes Buch

What Are the Odds?

A Statistical Guide to Certainty in an Uncertain World

Beschreibung

Using real-world examples, from brewing beer to finding a lost submarine, What Are the Odds? illuminates the core concepts of statistical thinking, asking not just what the data say but whether they're any good. Mark Prell shows how to avoid spurious reasoning and how to identify data that have been cherry-picked, falsified, or are plain wrong.

Autor

Mark Prell is a Senior Economist at the US Department of Agriculture and the author or coauthor of academic articles, book chapters, and government studies in economics, statistical methodology, and data quality. He has also served as Co-Chair of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, which advises US statistical agencies, and has taught economics and statistics at Johns Hopkins University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780674296367
• ISBN-10: 0674296362
• Artikelnr.: 74312892