Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.
Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
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- ISBN: 9780393071955 (hc.) :
- Physical Description: xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Where's the point? -- Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? -- Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements -- Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? -- Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem -- Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system -- The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" -- The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics -- Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated -- Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : The miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? -- Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer -- Appendix : Statistical warfare. |
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Subject: | Statistics. |
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245 | . | ‡aNaked statistics : ‡bstripping the dread from the data / ‡cCharles Wheelan. | |
250 | . | ‡a1st ed. | |
260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bW.W. Norton, ‡cc2013. | |
300 | . | ‡axviii, 282 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c25 cm. | |
504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index. | |
505 | . | ‡aWhere's the point? -- Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? -- Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements -- Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? -- Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem -- Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system -- The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" -- The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics -- Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated -- Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : The miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? -- Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer -- Appendix : Statistical warfare. | |
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