Measurement Theory and Practice: The World through Quantification

by David J. Hand

Little has been written on measurement in statistics, despite many recent advances in the field. This text provides an overall picture of the two main constituent parts - measurement theory and scaling methods. With a wide range of examples and applications in both theoretical and applied areas of statistics, this text is a large step towards filling this gap in relevant literature.

332 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2004

About the author

David J. Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London, and Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a recipient of the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society. He has served (twice) as President of the Royal Statistical Society, and is on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority. He has published 300 scientific papers and 25 books: his next book, The Improbability Principle, is due out in February 2014. He has broad research interests in areas including classification, data mining, anomaly detection, and the foundations of statistics. His applications interests include psychology, physics, and the retail credit industry - he and his research group won the 2012 Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry. He was made OBE for services to research and innovation in 2013.