Statistics Topics

by Salil Mehta

Salil Mehta is a statistician and risk strategist, who has developed a unique method to teach quantitative techniques. He has appeared numerously in the popular media, academic journals, and through prestigious statistics organizations such as American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society. Salil is also the creator of the popular web log, Statistical Ideas. This book is medium-level (more advanced than the web log), and colorfully weaves statistics topics into stories concerning everyday life issues. This topic is of greater importance with the growing demand for big data and information revolution pushing their way into relevancy, by pouring over large heaps of data, and just hoping that it will serve a positive objective. The topic is also of greater importance as nations seek to gain on their population's mathematical literacy in order to compete in this current century. The stories cover the nascent development of the field going back many hundreds of years from Asia, to the Middle East. Shows the later development in Europe of the most major theoretical constructs. And then then continue all the way to these current applied topics: fickleness of modern U.S. elections, hot hand streaks in the markets, Flight MH370's disappearance. There are also tools to think about diverse things such as civil unrest in emerging countries, and Federal Reserve Chair Yellen's current rate strategy. Statistics Topics' chapter sections are: probability theory, parameters, moments and correlations, stochastics, samples and errors, advanced confidence intervals, visual solutions, regressions, distribution fits, other topics and summary, and reference formulas. Half of this book's income is being donated to charity. If the $35 price is unaffordable and you live in the U.S., then please e-mail me your city zipcode; if there are multiple needs from specific locations, then I will work with the local library there to get a copy onto their shelves.

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2014

Reviews

[Mary Pat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Math books don't work well on kindle

This isn't a critique of the author, who has all sorts of intriguing examples and concept in the book - it's a critique that anything that's not simple text gets horribly mangled in kindle form.

I think the author did try to make it work, but having to use roman characters in lieu of greek, and trying to read the formulas when separated from the text.... paper books are still the best for math, ironically. Amazon - look into making kindle better beyond novels!