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Modeling the World
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Publication
2003-07-01 - Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Boston, Mass.
Language
English
Word Count
26,750 words, Guess
Page Count
107 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100201737353
- ISBN-139780201737356
- LibraryThing8145190
- Goodreads1397624
- OCLC Control Number52559258
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL9756705M
Description
Our world is awash in information, more plentiful than the grains of sand in these dunes. Hoping to understand the world, statisticians play in the sand, our data. We collect and inspect it. We describe it and look for patterns. We use it to create models. We hope that our models, like the castle, are useful images of the real world. Using tools based on the perfect curves of mathematics, we compare our models to that reality. Seeing where the models work -- and more often, where they fail -- we discover truths about our world. - p. [xxi].
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