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 |
Contents:
- 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.