CHAPTER 1 Uncertainty, Randomness and Creation
of New Knowledge
1. Uncertainty, and its quantification
2. Randomness and random numbers
3. From determinism to order in disorder
4. Randomness and creativity
References
APPENDIX: Discussion
A.l Chance and chaos
A.2 Creativity
A.3 Chance and necessity
A.4 Ambiguity I
AS Are decimal digits in ?r random?
CHAPTER 2 Taming of Uncertainty - Evolution
of Statistics
1. Early history: statistics as data
2. Taming of uncertainty
3. Future of statistics
CHAPTER 3 Principles and Strategies of Data Analysis:
Cross Examination of Data
1. Historical developments in data analysis
2. Cross-examination of data
3. Meta analysis
4. Inferential data analysis and concluding remarks

CHAPTER 4 Weighted Distributions - Data
with Built-in Bias
1. Specification
2. Truncation
3. Weighted distributions
4. P.P.s. sampling
5. Weighted binomial distribution: empirical
theorems
6. Alcoholism, family size and birth order
7. Waiting time paradox
8. Damage models
References
CHAPTER 5 Statistics: An Inevitable Instrument in
Search of Truth
1. Statistics and truth
2. Some examples
2.1 Shakespeare’s poem: an ode to statistics
2.2 Disputed authorship: the Federalist papers
2.3 Kautilya and the ArthaShtra
2.4 Dating of publications
2.5 Seriation of Plato’s works
2.6 Filiation of manuscripts
2.7 The language tree
2.8 Geological time scale
2.9 Common breeding ground of eels
2.10 Are acquired characteristics inherited?
2.11 The importance of being left-handed
2.12 Circadian rhythm
2.13 Disputed paternity
2.14 Salt in statistics
2.15 Economy in blood testing

2.16 Machine building factories to increase food
2.17 The missing decimal numbers
2.18 The Rhesus factor: a study in scientific
2.19 Family size, birth order and I.Q.
production
research
References
CHAPTER 6 Public Understanding of Statistics:
Learning from Numbers
1. Science for all
2. Data, information and knowledge
3. Information revolution and understanding of
statistics
4. Mournful numbers
5. Weather forecasting
6. Public opinion polls
7. Superstition and psychosomatic processes
8. Statistics and the law
9. ESP and amazing coincidences
10. Spreading statistical numeracy
11. Statistics as a key technology
References
APPENDIX
Srinivasa Ramanujan - a rare phenomenon
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