| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why I hated calculus but loved statistics -- What'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 of 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : the miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : the mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : will going to Harvard change your life? -- Five questions that statistics can help answer -- Appendix. Statistical software. |
| Summary |
Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts. |
| Subject |
Statistics.
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| ISBN |
9780393071955 hardcover $26.95 |
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0393071952 hardcover |
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