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Understanding Uncertainty
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[Name] Understanding Uncertainty
[Author] Dennis V. Lindley
[Publisher] John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
[Key Words] Statistics, Uncertainty
[Briefing]
Here is a book about uncertainty, showing how it might be measured and used in
your life, especially in decision making and science. It tells the story of great
discoveries made in the twentieth century that merit dispersal outside the narrow
community where they were developed. New ideas need new forms of exposition, so
after a collection, in Chapter 1, of examples of where uncertainty impinges on our
lives, Chapter 2 is concerned with certain stylistic questions including the thorny
subject of mathematics, so that it is only in Chapter 3 that the discoveries really
begin.
