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100 _aRao, C. Radhakrishna
245 0 _aStatistics and truth: putting chance to work/
_cC. Radhakrishna Rao.
260 _aSingapore ;
_bRiver Edge, NJ : World Scientific,
_c©1997.
300 _axvii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
505 _a1. Uncertainty, randomness and creation of new knowledge -- 2. Taming of uncertainty: Evolution of statistics -- 3. Principles and strategies of data analysis: Cross examination of data -- 4. Weighted distributions: Data with built-in bias -- 5. Statistics: An inevitable instrument in search of truth -- 6. Public understanding of statistics: Learning from numbers -- Appendix: Srinivasa Ramanujan: A rare phenomenon.
650 _aMathematical statistics.
650 _aMATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
650 _aData-analyse.
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