The art of data analysis : how to answer almost any question using basic statistics / Kristin H. Jarman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

Statistics: the life of the party -- Lions and tigers and ... Bigfoot? Oh, my: how questionable data can screw up an otherwise perfectly good statistical analysis -- Asteroid belts and spandex cars: using descriptive statistics to answer your most weighty questions -- Baseball, game shows and sidekicks: who cares about probability anyway? -- What it's like to be normal: probability distributions and one rule that could make you wildly popular -- Men are insensitive and women are illogical. Really: asserting your stereotypes with confidence -- Godzilla versus King Kong: how hypothesis tests can be used to settle the battle of the movie monsters -- Lab rats and roommates: analysis of variance and how to channel your inner mad scientist -- When the zombie flu went viral: regressing the myth out of urban myths -- Appendix A: critical values for the standard normal distribution -- Appendix B: critical values for the t-distribution -- Appendix C: Critical values for the chi-squared distribution.