Fact or Fluke? - Couverture souple

Meester, Ronald; Slooten, Klaas

 
9789463723497: Fact or Fluke?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9463723498 ISBN 13 : 9789463723497
Editeur : Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Statistics is more topical than ever. Numerous decisions depend on statistical considerations: just think of the Corona crisis or decisions about approving new drugs or other products. If researchers announce they have proved some fact using statistical tests, can we then always be sure that their claim is correct? How, and more importantly why, does statistics work? What can we expect from statistics and what not? 'Fact or Fluke?' is not a textbook that explains statistical tests to the reader; instead, it discusses what comes before those tests: the philosophy behind the statistics. Should one carry out tests, or are there other ways to look at statistics?

Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten use a variety of examples – from court cases to theoretical physics – to present different views on statistics and provide arguments for what they think is the best point of view. This book is meant for anyone who is in some way concerned with, or interested in, statistical evidence: scientific researchers, students, teachers, mathematicians, philosophers, lawyers, managers, and no doubt many others.

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À propos des auteurs

Ronald Meester is full professor in Probability Theory at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The last 15 years he has mainly worked on forensic probability and statistics.

Klaas Slooten is a statistician and DNA-kinship expert at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. He is also professor by special appointment at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Statistics is more topical than ever. Numerous decisions depend on statistical considerations: just think of the Corona crisis or decisions about approving new drugs or other products. If researchers announce they have proved some fact using statistical tests, can we then always be sure that their claim is correct? How, and more importantly why, does statistics work? What can we expect from statistics and what not? 'Fact or Fluke?' is not a textbook that explains statistical tests to the reader; instead, it discusses what comes before those tests: the philosophy behind the statistics. Should one carry out tests, or are there other ways to look at statistics?

Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten use a variety of examples – from court cases to theoretical physics – to present different views on statistics and provide arguments for what they think is the best point of view. This book is meant for anyone who is in some way concerned with, or interested in, statistical evidence: scientific researchers, students, teachers, mathematicians, philosophers, lawyers, managers, and no doubt many others.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Amsterdam University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9463723498
ISBN 13 
9789463723497
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
184
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