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Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.

By: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014Copyright date: 2013Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393347777
  • 039334777X
  • 9780393071955
  • 0393071952
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 23
LOC classification:
  • QA276  .W458 2014
Other classification:
  • C8-49
Contents:
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 -- 51/2 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 " 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?
Summary: Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QA276 .W458 2014 1 Checked out 07/01/2024 50583020010736
Total holds: 0

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 -- 51/2 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 " 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?

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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