Naked statistics : (Record no. 16115)
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| fixed length control field | 01678nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE & TIME | |
| control field | 20200828120550.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 200828b2014 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978039334777 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NLUO |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE | |
| Language | English |
| 082 ## - DDC NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519.5 |
| Book Number | WHE/NAK |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wheelan, Charles |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Naked statistics : |
| Sub Title | stripping the dread from the data |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Charles Wheelan. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | W.W. Norton & Co., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | 282 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Table of Contents:<br/>Introduction: Why I Hated Calculus But Love Statistics<br/>Chapter 1. What's the point?<br/>Chapter 2. Descriptive Statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? <br/>Chapter3. Deceptive Description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but rossly misleading statements <br/>Chapter 4. Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? <br/>Chapter 5. Basic Probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer <br/>Chapter 6. The Monty Hall Problem <br/><br/>Chapter 7. The Importance of Data : "Garbage in, garbage out"<br/>Chapter 8. The Central Limit Theorem : The Lebron James of Statistics <br/>Chapter 9. Inference : Why my Statistics Professor thought I might have cheated<br/>Chapter 10. Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) --<br/>Chapter 11. Regression Analysis : The miracle elixir --<br/>Chapter 12. Common regression Mistakes : The Mandatory Warning Label <br/>Chapter 13. Program Evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? <br/>Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer --<br/>Appendix : Statistical software<br/>Notes<br/>Index<br/><br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Subject | Statistics. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Location (home branch) | Sublocation or collection (holding branch) | Date acquired | Koha issues (times borrowed) | Koha full call number | Barcode (Accession No.) | Koha date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | NLUO | NLUO | 28/08/2020 | 519.5 WHE/NAK | 14803 | 28/08/2020 | 28/08/2020 | Book |