A Certain Uncertainty: Nature's Random Ways

by Mark Silverman

Book Overview

Based around a series of real-life scenarios, this engaging introduction to statistical reasoning will teach you how to apply powerful statistical, qualitative and probabilistic tools in a technical context. From analysis of electricity bills, baseball statistics, and stock market fluctuations, through to profound questions about physics of fermions and bosons, decaying nuclei, and climate change, each chapter introduces relevant physical, statistical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107032814
• ISBN13: 9781107032811
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 633 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.8"