TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellenberg, Jordan
TI  - How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
SN  - 9780718196042
U1  - 510 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mathematical Analysis
N1  - When am I Going to Use This?

Part I: Linearity
1. Less Like Sweden
2. Straight Locally, Curved Globally
3. Everyone Is Obese
4. How Much Is That In Dead Americans?
5. More Pie Than Plate

Part II: Inference
6. The Baltimore Stockbroker and the Bible Code
7. Dead Fish Don't Read Minds
8. Reductio Ad Unlikely
9. The International Journal of Haruspicy
10. Are You There, God? It's Me, Bayesian Inference

Part III: Expectation
11. What to Expect When You're Expecting to Win the Lottery
12. Miss More Planes!
13. Where the Train Tracks Meet

Part IV: Regression
14. The Triumph of Mediocrity
15. Galton's Ellipse
16. Does Lung Cancer Make You Smoke Cigarettes?

Part V: Existence
17. There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion
18. “Out of Nothing I Have Created A Strange New Universe”

How to be right


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