David J. Hand
Born
in Peterborough, The United Kingdom
June 30, 1950
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
21 editions
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2014
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Statistics: A Very Short Introduction
13 editions
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2008
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Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
10 editions
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2020
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Measurement: A Very Short Introduction
4 editions
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2016
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Het Onwaarschijnlijkheidsprincipe
3 editions
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published
2014
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Principles of Data Mining
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4 editions
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published
2001
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Statistics
6 editions
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published
2010
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Information Generation: How Data Rule Our World
2 editions
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published
2006
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Die Macht des Unwahrscheinlichen: Warum Zufälle, Wunder und unglaubliche Dinge jeden Tag passieren
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2015
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Measurement Theory and Practice: The World Through Quantification
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2004
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“Unfortunately, we generally find it difficult to assess very small probabilities. We typically overestimate them (thinking the events more likely than they are) and underestimate very high probabilities.”
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
“Events don’t actually occur as often as people predict they will. And this in turn is related to hindsight bias (the tendency to see past events as being more predictable than they were at the time), which I’ll discuss shortly.”
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
“Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.”
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
― The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
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