Naked statistics

stripping the dread from the data

Naked statistics

stripping the dread from the data
Charles Wheelan
Book - 2013

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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37413314412612 Available Non-fiction 519.5 WHEELAN
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheelan, Charles J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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300 |a xviii, 282 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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