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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Naked statistics : |b stripping the dread from the data / |c Charles Wheelan. |
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| 300 | |a xviii, 282 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 elixer -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? -- Conclusion : Five questions thathat statistics can help answer -- Appendix : Statistical warfare. | |
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