A new book shows how not to fall for dubious statistics
‘The Art of Statistics’ shows how to think critically about numbers and data analyses
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Numbers don’t lie, but they can be deceiving. David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Statistics can help you figure out what data are really saying.
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