Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data

Abstract

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Dr Anthony Masters is a Chartered Statistician, a Statistical Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, and a frequent blogger and explainer of statistical ideas. The book is written for readers who want to have a clearer understanding of how to interpret COVID-19 data and evidence. The book structure has been designed to answer questions asked throughout the pandemic and to use data to answer each question. There are 7 main sections split into 28 short chapters each representing a different question. Each chapter only takes a few minutes to read and therefore allows readers to dip in and out of the book efficiently and easily access any topics of interest. The following topics are covered: The data presented are evidence based, but...