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Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data, Charles Wheelan
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- Summary
- Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 282 p.
- 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 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
- Isbn
- 9780393071955
- Label
- Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data
- Title
- Naked statistics
- Title remainder
- stripping the dread from the data
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Wheelan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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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- 10160867
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- Wheelan, Charles J
- Dewey number
- 519.5
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Statistics
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- stripping the dread from the data
- Label
- Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data, Charles Wheelan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index
- 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 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
- Control code
- 000050201358
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 282 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393071955
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data, Charles Wheelan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index
- 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 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
- Control code
- 000050201358
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 282 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393071955
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill.
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