How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) - Couverture rigide

Chivers, Tom; Chivers, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474619967 ISBN 13 : 9781474619967

Editeur : W&N, 2021

Synopsis

A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrong

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Chivers is a science writer and author. He was awarded the Royal Statistical Society 'statistical excellence in journalism' award in 2018, and was highly commended for the same prize in 2017; he has also been shortlisted for the Association of British Science Writers award and a British Journalism Award in science writing, and won the American Psychological Society media award, all in 2017. His first book, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World, was declared one of The Times' science books of 2019.

David Chivers is an assistant professor of economics at Durham University. Before this post he was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and completed his PhD at the University of Manchester, funded by the ESRC. He has published in academic journals such as Review of Economic Dynamics, Economic Theory and Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation. His research interests involve topics relating to inequality, growth and development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474619967
• ISBN 13: 9781474619967
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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