TY - BOOK AU - Rao, C. Radhakrishna TI - Statistics and truth: putting chance to work U1 - 310 PY - 1997/// CY - Singapore ; PB - River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, KW - Mathematical statistics. KW - MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General. KW - Data-analyse N1 - 1. Uncertainty, randomness and creation of new knowledge -- 2. Taming of uncertainty: Evolution of statistics -- 3. Principles and strategies of data analysis: Cross examination of data -- 4. Weighted distributions: Data with built-in bias -- 5. Statistics: An inevitable instrument in search of truth -- 6. Public understanding of statistics: Learning from numbers -- Appendix: Srinivasa Ramanujan: A rare phenomenon ER -