David Spiegelhalter (Author)
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Chair of the Winton
Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Centre for
Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His
bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, has been published in 11
languages. He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical
statistics, was President of the Royal Statistical Society
(2017-2018), and became a Non-Executive Director of the UK
Statistics Authority in 2020. He is @d_spiegel on Twitter.
Anthony Masters (Author)
Dr Anthony Masters is a Chartered Statistician, a Statistical
Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, and a frequent
blogger and explainer of statistical ideas. He is @anthonybmasters
on Twitter.
A clear and extremely readable guided tour of the pandemic... This
book represents an extremely timely contribution... If journalists,
politicians and the public were all provided with a copy then the
debate would be vastly better informed, with much more light than
heat
*Guardian*
Cuts through the noise and disinformation about the pandemic... In
single well-evidenced sentences [Spiegelhalter] and Masters can
pronounce on months-long conflicts... Reading it, it feels as
though there are adults in the room
*The Times*
Fascinating
*Jeremy Vine*
A valuable overview of COVID-19 statistics and how to navigate
them. Rather than just quoting numbers, Spiegelhalter and Masters
discuss how to think about epidemic data... No doubt many books
will be written on the COVID-19 pandemic... But if they want to get
the statistics straight, their authors may want to read Covid by
Numbers first
*Lancet*
I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic
and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive
yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane
*Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add Up*
A clear, concise statistical journal of the plague year. If you
want to understand the numbers behind the virus that stopped the
world, you ought to read this book
*Tom Chivers, author of The Rationalists*
Fantastic and wonderfully readable. A much needed antidote to the
often murky and misinterpreted world of Covid data, explained in a
straightforward and clear way - yet always remembering the humanity
the data represents
*Dr Hannah Fry*
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