Truth or truthiness : distinguishing fact from fiction by learning to think like a data scientist /...
Truth or truthiness : distinguishing fact from fiction by learning to think like a data scientist /...
Truth or truthiness : distinguishing fact from fiction by learning to think like a data scientist / Howard Wainer, National Board of Medical Examiners.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/3027
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English
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xviii, 210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts ; 24 cm.
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still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. Thinking Like a Data Scientist: 1. How the rule of 72 can provide guidance to advance your wealth, your career and your gas mileage; 2. Piano virtuosos and the four-minute mile; 3. Happiness and causal inference; 4. Causal inference and death; 5. Using experiments to answer four vexing quest...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2016.
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"Teacher tenure is a problem. Teacher tenure is a solution. Fracking is safe. Fracking causes earthquakes. Our kids are over-tested. Our kids are not tested enough. We read claims like these in the newspaper, often with no justification other than "it feels right." How can we figure out what is right? Escaping from the clutches of truthiness begins...
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Truth or truthiness : distinguishing fact from fiction by learning to think like a data scientist / Howard Wainer, National Board of Medical Examiners.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/3027
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74VKVPa6zDLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVPa6zDLX
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9781107130579 (hardback)
DDC
001.42
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991023993310702626
