The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Dont(Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Nate Silver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143124005 ISBN 13: 9780143124009

Publisher: Penguin Books US, 2013

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The founder of FiveThirtyEight.com challenges myths about predictions in subjects ranging from the financial market and weather to sports and politics, profiling the world of prediction to explain how to distinguish true signals from hype.

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Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: People love statistics. Statistics, however, do not always love them back. The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver's brilliant and elegant tour of the modern science-slash-art of forecasting, shows what happens when Big Data meets human nature. Baseball, weather forecasting, earthquake prediction, economics, and polling: In all of these areas, Silver finds predictions gone bad thanks to biases, vested interests, and overconfidence. But he also shows where sophisticated forecasters have gotten it right (and occasionally been ignored to boot). In today's metrics-saturated world, Silver's book is a timely and readable reminder that statistics are only as good as the people who wield them. --Darryl Campbell

About the Author

Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books US
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143124005
• ISBN 13: 9780143124009
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 534