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100105s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng |
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2009051809 |
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9780071626538 (alk. paper) |
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0071626530 (alk. paper) |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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EY8Z |
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HA29 |
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.F845 2010 |
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519.5 |
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22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fung, Kaiser. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Numbers rule your world : |
| Remainder of title |
the hidden influence of probabilities and statistics on everything you do / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kaiser Fung. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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New York : |
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McGraw-Hill, |
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c2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xv, 208 p. : |
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ill. ; |
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22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius XM Radio that is responsible for gleaning insight into customers and operational best practices. His blog, "Junk Charts," pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Introduction -- Fast passes are to slow merges : the discontent of being averaged -- Bagged spinach is to bad score : the virtue of being wrong -- Item bank is to risk pool : the dilemma of being together -- Timid testers are to magic lassos : the cloak of being asymmetric -- Jet crashes are to jackpots : the power of being impossible -- Conclusion. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way. These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. This is how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your needs, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never think about-even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life. What you learn may surprise you, amuse you, or even enrage you. But there's one thing you won't be able to deny: Numbers Rule Your World -- Publisher description. |
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Statistics |
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Social aspects. |
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Probabilities |
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Social aspects. |
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u195665 |
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