In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, -The Lady Tasting Tea, - David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.

In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, -The Lady Tasting Tea, - David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.

This book will educate the general public about statistical methnods to improve medical fraud assessment by more accurateoverpayment estimation, representative sampling and use of data mining methods for fraud detection. In the United States, total health care related spending reached 2.9 trillion USD and $9255 per person in 2013. It is estimated that up to 10 percent of annual health care spending is lost to fraudulent transactions. In addition to the direct cost implications to the government and to the taxpayers, medical fraud also diminishes the ability of the medical systems to...