MARC details
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02698cam a2200361 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1372625186 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20231229135835.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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230407s2023 ilua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2023016550 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
ICU/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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UKMGB |
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OCLCF |
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IUO |
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GK8 |
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PUL |
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IKG |
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IJ5 |
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NFG |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBC3J4920 |
| Source |
bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
021244119 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780226822587 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0226822583 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1372625186 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
519.5 |
| Item number |
D748 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Downey, Allen, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Probably overthinking it : |
| Remainder of title |
how to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Allen B. Downey. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
How to use data to answer questions, avoid statistical traps, and make better decisions |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Chicago ; |
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London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
252 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
| Content Type Code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
| Carrier Type Code |
nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction -- Are you normal? : hint: no -- Relay races and revolving doors -- Defy tradition, save the world -- Extremes, outliers, and GOATs -- Better than new -- Jumping to conclusions -- Causation, collision, and confusion -- The long tail of disaster -- Fairness and fallacy -- Penguins, pessimists, and paradoxes -- Changing hearts and minds -- Chasing the Overton window -- Epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Teacher, data scientist, and blogger Allen B. Downey knows well that the human mind has both an innate ability to understand statistics and to be fooled by them. Statistically speaking, you will be less popular than your friends, arrive at a train station during a gap in service, and fail to find a running mate in a race. But more than surprising us, errors in statistical thinking, Downey shows, can have a huge impact. Statistical confusion has led to incorrect patient prognoses, caused mistakes in predicting disasters like earthquakes, hurt vaccination programs, hindered social justice efforts, and led to dubious policy decisions. Written for those who may have once taken a statistics course, but now forget almost everything they've learned, the book includes a diversity of examples that use real data and have real world impacts. Building understanding incrementally, Downey engagingly and accessibly helps readers understand what we might learn when we get the mathematics right, and the consequences when we get it all wrong."-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Statistics. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
29295 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
