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Bernoulli's Fallacy

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Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data--and how to fix it.

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Bernoulli's Fallacy, Aubrey Clayton

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2021
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Title
Bernoulli's Fallacy
Language
English
Released
2021
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Hardcover
Pages
368
ISBN10
0231199945
ISBN13
9780231199940
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Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data--and how to fix it.