The Art of Uncertainty - How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

This is a brilliant book. A must read for anyone who aspires to think intelligently about the world we live in. Uncertainty is all-pervasive: in our personal lives; in responding to social and political issues; in sorting truth from fiction; and in understanding and mitigating global challenges. David Spiegelhalter provides the tools for thinking about all aspects of uncertainty in a rational way>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge. His bestselling book The Art of Statistics has been published in eleven languages. He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics, was President of the Royal Statistical Society (2017 – 2018) and became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority in 2020.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Spiegelhalter, Spiegelhalter David
• Verlag: PELICAN
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9780241658635
• ISBN: 978-0-241-65863-5
• Seiten: 512
• Abmessung: 111 mm x 181 mm x 35 mm
• Serie: Pelican Books
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics, Risk assessment