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This outstanding book serves to bridge and extend the space between popular science and statistics on the one side and more formal academic learning on the other. In doing so, it is exceptional in terms of breadth, depth, rigour, clarity and accessibility. The scope and content are very well chosen and assembled, and help greatly in improving our understanding of the roles of chance, choice and reason in the world. Each section contributes a critical element of the overall jigsaw of how best to understand and investigate this world, and provides the essential toolkit required to do so. The problem sets are particularly helpful in illuminating the material. I highly recommend this book to anyone studying, or with a general interest in, the sciences or social sciences. - Vanessa Sung, University of Southampton

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Leighton Vaughan Williams, PhD, FHEA, is Professor of Economics and Finance at Nottingham Business School, as well as Director of the Betting Research Unit and of the Political Forecasting Unit. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of probability, risk, and choice under uncertainty, and given expert witness evidence before national and international courts of law and select committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords. He has served as a senior adviser to UK Government departments, and currently teaches undergraduates and postgraduates how to apply Bayesian methods, and the tools of probability and statistics, to real-world problems and paradoxes.

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