Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.
Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393071955
- ISBN: 0393071952
- Physical Description: xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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 software.
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- 7 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 519.5 WHE (Text) | 36015000662003 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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