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The Signal and the Noise : : why Most Predictions Fail-- but Some Don't

Silver, Nate, 1978- Book - 2012 519.542 Si, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Mathematics / Statistics 3 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.

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A Great Non-textbook Overview submitted by gtierney on June 26, 2015, 10:22pm This book is very much in the vein of "Freakonomics", so if you've read that book and enjoyed it, you'll enjoy this one as well. Silver takes the informal story-based approach to explaining subjects such as forecasting and Bayesian statistics, in a way that doesn't require you to pull out an old textbook just to finish the chapter. I had been looking forward to reading this book ever since it was released, and certainly enjoyed it.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 534 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594204111
159420411X

SUBJECTS
Forecasting.
Forecasting -- Methodology.
Forecasting -- History.
Bayesian statistical decision theory.
Knowledge, Theory of.