TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheelan,Charles J.
TI  - Naked statistics: stripping the dread from the data 
SN  - 9780393071955
AV  - QA276 .W458 2013
U1  - 519.5 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Statistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index; 1; What's the point? --; 2; Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? --; 3; Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements --; 4; Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? --; 5; Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem --; 6; Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system --; 7; The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" --; 8; The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics --; 9; Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated --; 10; Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) --; 11; Regression analysis : The miracle elixir --; 12; Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label --; 13; Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? --; Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer --; Appendix : Statistical warfare
N2  - Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts
ER  -