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Super crunchers : why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart / Ian Ayres. |
| Authors: | Ayres, Ian. |
| Call number: | 519.5 AYR |
| Publisher: | New York : Bantam Books, 2007. |
| Publication date: | 2007. |
| Subject: |
Statistics.
Regression analysis. Sampling (Statistics) Standard deviations. |
| Title: | Super crunchers : why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart / Ian Ayres. |
| Physical description: | 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Introduction : the rise of the super crunchers -- Who's doing your thinking for you? -- Creating your own data with the flip of a coin -- Government by chance -- How should physicians treat evidence-based medicine? -- Experts vs. equations -- Why now? -- Are we having fun yet? -- The future of intuition (and expertise). |
| Notes: | Some copies have 307 pages. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780553805406 (hardcover) 0553805401 (hardcover) 9780553384734 (pbk.) |
| LCCN: | 2007013804 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1106109 |
| Bib No.: | 1106109 |
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