Naked statistics :
Wheelan, Charles
Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data by Charles Wheelan. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2014. - 282 p.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why I Hated Calculus But Love Statistics
Chapter 1. What's the point?
Chapter 2. Descriptive Statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time?
Chapter3. Deceptive Description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but rossly misleading statements
Chapter 4. Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like?
Chapter 5. Basic Probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer
Chapter 6. The Monty Hall Problem
Chapter 7. The Importance of Data : "Garbage in, garbage out"
Chapter 8. The Central Limit Theorem : The Lebron James of Statistics
Chapter 9. Inference : Why my Statistics Professor thought I might have cheated
Chapter 10. Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) --
Chapter 11. Regression Analysis : The miracle elixir --
Chapter 12. Common regression Mistakes : The Mandatory Warning Label
Chapter 13. Program Evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life?
Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer --
Appendix : Statistical software
Notes
Index
978039334777
Statistics.
519.5 / WHE/NAK
Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data by Charles Wheelan. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2014. - 282 p.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why I Hated Calculus But Love Statistics
Chapter 1. What's the point?
Chapter 2. Descriptive Statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time?
Chapter3. Deceptive Description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but rossly misleading statements
Chapter 4. Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like?
Chapter 5. Basic Probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer
Chapter 6. The Monty Hall Problem
Chapter 7. The Importance of Data : "Garbage in, garbage out"
Chapter 8. The Central Limit Theorem : The Lebron James of Statistics
Chapter 9. Inference : Why my Statistics Professor thought I might have cheated
Chapter 10. Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) --
Chapter 11. Regression Analysis : The miracle elixir --
Chapter 12. Common regression Mistakes : The Mandatory Warning Label
Chapter 13. Program Evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life?
Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer --
Appendix : Statistical software
Notes
Index
978039334777
Statistics.
519.5 / WHE/NAK