Art, Artfulness, or Artifice?: A Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data, by David Spiegelhalter

Art, Artfulness, or Artifice?: A Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data, by David Spiegelhalter

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David Spiegelhalter.2019.The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data.

(London: The Penguin Group).444 pp.ISBN 978-1541618510 The author successfully eases the reader away from the rigor of statistical methods and calculations and into the realm of Sensitivity of an Idealized Tropical Cyclone to the Configuration of the Global Forecast System–Eddy Diffusivity Mass Flux Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme statistical thinking.

Despite an engaging style and attention-grabbing examples, the reader of The Art of Statistics will need more than Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times in Multi-Factory Production Network: Modeling and Algorithm a casual grounding in statistics to get what Spiegelhalter, I believe, intends from his book.It should be viewed as a companion to a more rigorous textbook on statistical methods but not necessarily a book that makes statistics any less complicated for the uninitiated.