TY - BOOK AU - Hand, D. J. TI - Statistics : a very short introduction SN - 978-0-19-923356-4 AV - Q 180 .H36 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Statistics N1 - Sets the study of statistics in context, describing its history and giving examples of its impact, summarizes methods of gathering and evaluating data, and explains the role played by the science of chance, of probability, in statistical methods. Also explores philosophical issues of induction--how we use statistics to discern the true nature of reality from the limited observations we make ER -