Art, Artfulness, or Artifice?: A Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data, by David Spiegelhalter

Art, Artfulness, or Artifice?: A Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data, by David Spiegelhalter

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David Spiegelhalter.2019.The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data.

(London: The Penguin Carb Caps Group).444 pp.ISBN 978-1541618510 The author successfully eases the reader away from the rigor of statistical methods and calculations and into the realm of statistical thinking.

Despite an engaging style and attention-grabbing examples, the reader of The Art of Statistics will need Hoodie more than a casual grounding in statistics to get what Spiegelhalter, I believe, intends from his book.It should be viewed as a companion to a more rigorous textbook on statistical methods but not necessarily a book that makes statistics any less complicated for the uninitiated.