Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data /
Wheelan, Charles J.
Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Stripping the dread from the data Charles Wheelan. - xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
What'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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
9780393071955 0393071952
2012034411
016251590 Uk
Statistics.
QA276 / .W458 2013
519.5
Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Stripping the dread from the data Charles Wheelan. - xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
What'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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
9780393071955 0393071952
2012034411
016251590 Uk
Statistics.
QA276 / .W458 2013
519.5