Adventures in Statistics: How We Live in a World of Numbers
Stewart, Robert T.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-09
- 售價: $1,110
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,055
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 122
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031612833
- ISBN-13: 9783031612831
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機率統計學 Probability-and-statistics
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商品描述
This book is about how statistics play a role in life, whether in business, psychology, biology, economics, or just about anything short of basket weaving. You cannot make a trip to the doctor, watch a football game, or even go to the grocery store without some statistic staring you down. Your age, weight, and cholesterol make you a high risk for diabetes ... the chance that your team will win the game is 12.5 percent ... 4 out of 5 dentists like this toothpaste. What does it all mean? Adventures in Statistics: How We Live in a World of Numbers tells you what all those numbers mean. But the book does not spit out a bunch of mathematical formulas; the book tells stories. Stories that explain statistics through popular culture, sports, and history.
You're confused about that false positive warning in that drug commercial, the 2007 comedy Juno explains how medical tests - including pregnancy tests - fail and why. Not clear about what your coworkers are talking about when they say, 'black swans.' the 1997 blockbuster Titanic makes sense of the concept.
Adventures in Statistics: How We Live in a World of Numbers shows how professionals in medicine, business, politics, sports, and many other fields use numbers. So, just about everyone would gain from reading this book, perhaps even basket weavers.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書探討統計在生活中的角色,無論是在商業、心理學、生物學、經濟學,還是幾乎所有領域,除了編織籃子之外。你無法去看醫生、觀看足球比賽,甚至去杂货店都會遇到一些統計數據。你的年齡、體重和膽固醇使你成為糖尿病的高風險人群...你的球隊贏得比賽的機會是12.5%...五位牙醫中有四位喜歡這款牙膏。這一切都意味著什麼呢?《統計冒險:我們生活在數字世界中》告訴你所有這些數字的含義。但這本書並不只是列舉一堆數學公式,它講述故事。透過流行文化、體育和歷史的故事來解釋統計學。
當你對藥物廣告中的假陽性警告感到困惑時,《Juno》這部2007年的喜劇片解釋了醫學測試(包括懷孕測試)的失敗原因。當你不清楚你的同事們在說什麼時,當他們說到「黑天鵝」時,《鐵達尼號》這部1997年的大片能幫你理解這個概念。
《統計冒險:我們生活在數字世界中》展示了醫學、商業、政治、體育和許多其他領域的專業人士如何使用數字。因此,幾乎每個人都可以從閱讀這本書中獲益,甚至包括編織籃子的人。
作者簡介
Rob Stewart is currently an assistant professor in the School of Business at Molloy University. Prior to joining Molloy University in 2024, he worked at JP Morgan Chase in the Model Risk Group as a quantitative risk specialist. Before joining the model risk group at Chase, Dr. Stewart spent more than seven years as a quantitative operational risk specialist in the supervision and regulation department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He also spent time at American Express and Discover Financial Services in various roles around the quantitative aspects of consumer credit.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Rob Stewart目前是Molloy大學商學院的助理教授。在2024年加入Molloy大學之前,他在JP Morgan Chase擔任模型風險小組的量化風險專家。在加入Chase的模型風險小組之前,Stewart博士在芝加哥聯邦儲備銀行的監管部門擔任量化運營風險專家超過七年。他還在美國運通和Discover金融服務公司擔任過與消費者信貸的量化相關的各種職位。