The two parts of this book treat probability and statistics as mathematical disciplines.

Praise for the First Edition

-...a reference for everyone who is interested in knowing and handling uncertainty.-
--Journal of Applied Statistics

The critically acclaimed First Edition of Understanding Uncertainty provided a study of uncertainty addressed to scholars in all fields, showing that uncertainty could be measured by probability, and that probability obeyed three basic rules that enabled uncertainty to be handled sensibly in everyday life. These ideas were extended to embrace the scientific method and to show how decisions,...