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Language
  
English

Pages
  
272

OCLC
  
122973719

Originally published
  
2007

Page count
  
272

Genres
  
Business, Economics

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Publication date
  
2007

ISBN
  
978-0-553-80540-6

Dewey Decimal
  
519.5 22

Author
  
Publisher
  
Bantam Books

Subjects
  
Statistics, Economics

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Works by Ian Ayres, Finance books, Statistics books

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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to be Smart is a book written by Ian Ayres, a law professor at Yale Law School about how number analysis, such as multiple regression analysis affects all areas of life, often in unexpected ways.

Contents

With examples such as predicting gestation period more precisely than Naegele's rule, predicting the box office success of films, Orley Ashenfelter's work predicting the price of Bordeaux wine based on weather data, collecting data on the effectiveness of teaching methods such as DISTAR, choosing baseball players based on statistics (Sabermetrics), and A/B testing to determine the most effective advertisements, Ayres explains how statistical evidence can be used as a supplement or substitute for human intuition.

Awards

  • The Economist – Books of the Year 2007
  • References

    Super Crunchers Wikipedia


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