Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.
By: Wheelan, Charles J
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2013Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780393071955 (hbk.); 0393071952 (hbk.).Subject(s): StatisticsDDC classification: 519.5 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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