Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Art of UncertaintyCondition: NewSubtitle: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and LuckISBN-10: 0241658624EAN: 9780241658628ISBN: 9780241658628Publisher: PelicanFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/19/2024Description: ‘Probably the UK’s greatest living statistician’ TelegraphFrom the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertaintyWe live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal with what we don’t know? And what role do chance, luck and coincidence play in our lives?David Spiegelhalter has spent his career dissecting data in order to understand risks and assess the chances of what might happen in the future. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives readers a window onto how we can all do this better.In engaging, crystal-clear prose, he takes us through the principles of probability, showing how it can help us think more analytically about everything from medical advice to pandemics and climate change forecasts, and explores how we can update our beliefs about the future in the face of constantly changing experience. Along the way, he explains why roughly 40% of football results come down to luck rather than talent, how the National Risk Register assesses near-term risks to the United Kingdom, and why we can be so confident that two properly shuffled packs of cards have never, ever been in the exact same order.Drawing on a wide range of captivating real-world examples, this is an essential guide to navigating uncertainty while also having the humility to admit what we do not knowLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 222mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 40mmItem Weight: 500gAuthor: David SpiegelhalterGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science Nature & MathType: TextbookRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Art of Uncertainty
Publication Name: The Art of Uncertainty
Title: The Art of Uncertainty
Subtitle: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
ISBN-10: 0241658624
EAN: 9780241658628
ISBN: 9780241658628
Publisher: Pelican
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 09/19/2024
Release Year: 2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 222mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Width: 40mm
Item Weight: 500g
Author: David Spiegelhalter
Genre: Language & Reference
Subject: Science Nature & Math
Type: Textbook
