CEO and founder of analytics software company SAS, was a student there and taught there, and he generously

100 Common Senses in Statistics and Freak Statistics, that are designed to help the nonstatistician understand and be more “literate” with statistical information.

He knows, through a quite involved calculation, that at some point in a series of two hundred coin-flips, either heads or tails will come up six or more times in

The depth of painstakingly hard work, and the strength of the immersion determine the inspiration.

Pattern finding in contemporary organizations tends to come more through statistical analysis than

Problems analyzed and decision policies implemented spanned problems from determining machine quantities and layout to managing work-in-progress and equipment maintenance.

Data-mining software for finding patterns in data

in general, an introductory textbook on probability is Richard Isaac’s The Pleasures of Probability.9

One of the most popular books is Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.