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Statistics Audiobooks

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    How to Make the World Add Up

    Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

    by Tim Harford ...
    Narrated by Tim Harford ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    The Sunday Times Bestseller'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability to make complex things simple - but not simplistic - is exceptional. How to Make the World Add Up is another one of his gems. If you're looking for an addictive pageturner that will make you smarter, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Signal and the Noise

    Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

    by Nate Silver ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 21 min

    **UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review**Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rationality

    What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help you understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Rationality, Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now.In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How the World Really Works

    A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Calling Bullshit

    The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

    by Jevin D. West, Carl T. Bergstrom ...
    Narrated by Patrick Zeller ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientistsThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.Based on a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics

    A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World

    by Daniel Levitin ...
    Narrated by Dan Piraro ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of a Field Guide to Lies by David Levitin, read by Dan Piraro.The bestselling author of The Organized Mind explains and debunks statistics in the information ageWe live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Numbers Don't Lie

    71 Things You Need to Know About the World

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Standard Deviations

    Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

    by Gary Smith ...
    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    “A very entertaining book about a very serious problem. We deceive ourselves all the time with statistics, and it is time we wised up.” -Robert J. Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter “D” are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How Charts Lie

    Getting Smarter about Visual Information

    by Alberto Cairo ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous-and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut

    by Marcus du Sautoy ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    How do you remember more and forget less?How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house?And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut.Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and with over 2,000 years of knowledge to draw on, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy interrogates his passion for shortcuts in this fresh and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Errors, Blunders, and Lies

    How to Tell the Difference

    by David S. Salsburg ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...
    series ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts to understand our world are blocked by blunders. And, unfortunately, in some cases, people have been ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

    by Lawrence M. Friedman, Curt D. Furberg, David L. DeMets ...
    Narrated by Douglas Martin ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 56 min

    This is the fifth edition of a very successful textbook on clinical trials methodology, written by recognized leaders who have long and extensive experience in all areas of clinical trials. The three authors of the first four editions have been joined by two others who add great expertise. This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Size

    How It Explains the World

    by Vaclav Smil ...

    Unabridged

    Brought to you by Penguin.100 words: The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels - the giant ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Luck

    by David Flusfeder ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    A fascinating, enchanting and painfully personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as ‘luck’—some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Doomsday Calculation

    How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

    by William Poundstone ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    In the eighteenth century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How Contagion Works

    Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

    by Paolo Giordano ...
    Narrated by Paolo Giordano, David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world:why it mattershow it impacts ushow we must reactBy expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news and x... ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Statistics Crash Course

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    A crash course in statistics delves into key statistical methods, namely Chi Square, t-test, ANOVA and descriptive statistics. It equally gives an overview of statistical methods as well as various discussions of the statistical tests relating to various database culled from various sources, like the survey of student spending on textbooks, etc. Also, detailed demonstration of various data ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Practical Statistics

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Tracy Tupman ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Practical Statistics is a method where a person who wants to learn basic statistics for work, school, and research can get knowledge. Statistics is a great combination of all fields combined together and helps companies grow further and further. Not restricting the operations to business only, Practical Statistics comes into play for all practical aspects and makes deducing the concepts and ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Basics of Statistics Explained

    by Can Akdeniz, Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by David Willams ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    What do you know about statistics? Are you a business student? Are you a manager of some company? Do you want to be an Economist? If yes, this course if for you. Principles of Statistics are the basics of Economics. Most of the times, people find such course very boring and difficult. In fact, Statistic is really a boring thing. In this book, you will witness that the whole course is detailed in ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Something Doesn't Add Up

    Surviving Statistics in a Post-Truth World

    by Paul Goodwin ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a tour of the stupidest, self-defeating, self-blinding ways supposedly clever people use maths in ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Numbercrunch

    A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

    by Professor Oliver Johnson ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all'- Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical'- Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add UpIn our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with... ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    AIQ

    How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world

    by Nick Polson, James Scott ...
    Narrated by Nick Polson, Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of AIQ by Nick Polson and James Scott, read by Nick Polson and Walter Dixon.Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, where it came from and how to harness its power for a better world.Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Formula

    How Algorithms Solve all our Problems... and Create More

    by Luke Dormehl ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms-what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google's search algorithm ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Upside of Irrationality

    The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

    by Dan Ariely ...
    Narrated by Simon Jones ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    “Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.” — James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of CrowdsBehavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely returns to offer a much-needed take on the irrational decisions that influence our dating ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial