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  • The Lady Tasting Tea

    How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

    by David Salsburg ...
    "A fascinating description of the kinds of people who interacted, collaborated, disagreed, and were brilliant in the development of statistics." —Barbara A. Bailar, Senior Vice-President, National Opinion Research CenterAt a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Understanding Randomness

    EXERCISES FOR STATISTICIANS

    by David S. Salsburg ...
    Series series Lecture Notes in Statistics
    This concise, easy-to-follow book stimulates interest and develops proficiency in statisticalanalysis. Packed full of helpful exercises-covering a wide variety of conditions,random patterns, and simple models-Understanding Randomness presents a logical sequenceof study, through practice in interpreting random noise before progressing on toreal life problems ... demonstrates proper applications of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Errors, Blunders, and Lies

    How to Tell the Difference

    by David S. Salsburg ...
    Series series ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society
    We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts to understand our world are blocked by blunders. And, unfortunately, in some cases, people have been ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Errors, Blunders, and Lies

    How to Tell the Difference

    by David S Salsburg ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts to understand our world are blocked by blunders. And, unfortunately, in some cases, people have been ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future

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    Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin from Omniscia

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  • Scent

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    The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

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    The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian ... Read more

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