Aubrey Clayton

Bernoulli's Fallacy

Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 368 Seiten
ISBN 0231199953
EAN 9780231199957
Veröffentlicht November 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Columbia University Press
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Beschreibung

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data-and how to fix it.

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Aubrey Clayton is a mathematician who teaches the philosophy of probability and statistics at the Harvard Extension School. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Nautilus, and the Boston Globe.