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082 _a510
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100 _aEllenberg, Jordan
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245 _aHow Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
260 _bPenguin Books
_c2015
_aLondon
300 _a468p
504 _aWhen 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
600 _aMathematics
_97634
600 _aMathematical Analysis
_97635
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_cLB
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_mELL
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