Jarman, Kristin H., <br/><br/>
The art of data analysis :  how to answer almost any question using basic statistics / 
Kristin H. Jarman. 
 - ix, 179 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781118411315 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013000381 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematical statistics--Popular works
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA276.12  / .J35 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>519.5