Super Crunchers

Super Crunchers

Infobox Book
name = Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to be Smart


author = Ian Ayres
subject(s) = Statistics, Economics
language = English
publisher = Bantam
release_date = 2007
pages = 272
isbn = ISBN 978-0553805406

"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 multiple regression analysis affects all areas of life, often in unexpected ways.

With examples from medicine, education, business, sports, and oenology, Ayers explains how statistical evidence can be used as a supplement or substitute for human intuition.

ee also

*Freakonomics

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/ Random House's page on Super Crunchers]
* [http://www.ianayres.com/ Ian Ayers's home page]


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