Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

How to Lie with Statistics
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
Leonard Mlodinow
Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of ...more
Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Nenia Campbell
All statistics have outliers.
Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

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