Salil Mehta is a statistician and risk strategist, who has developed a unique method to teach quantitative techniques. He has appeared numerously in the popular media, academic journals, and through prestigious statistics organizations such as American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society. Salil is also the creator of the popular web log, Statistical Ideas. This book is medium-level (more advanced than the web log), and colorfully weaves statistics topics into stories concerning everyday life issues. This topic is of greater importance with the growing demand for big...