A dazzling application of new economic theories to the world around us - by the author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST

Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service

A brilliant and eye-opening explanation of the economics of everyday life - Britain's answer to FREAKONOMICS

Tim Harford returns as the Undercover Economist with an even bigger target in his sights: to explain how the whole world economy works.

Thinking Mathematically unfolds the processes which lie at the heart of mathematics. It demonstrates how to encourage, develop, and foster the processes which seem to come naturally to mathematicians.

Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks which can waste millions of pounds.

Provides advanced students with a comprehensive introduction to commonly encountered statistical and multivariate techniques, while assuming only a limited knowledge of higher level mathematics. Each technique chapter: discusses tests for assumptions of analysis, presents a small example and describes varieties of analysis.

A Practical Approach to using Multivariate Analyses Using Multivariate Statistics, 6th edition provides advanced undergraduate as well as graduate students with a timely and comprehensive introduction to today's most commonly encountered statistical and multivariate techniques, while assuming only a limited knowledge of higher-level mathematics.

Written in an informal style, this book guides the reader gently through the field from the simplest descriptive statistics to multidimensional approaches. It's written in an accessible way, with few calculations and fewer equations, for readers from a broad set of academic disciplines ranging from archaeology to zoology.