TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheelan, Charles
TI  - Naked statistics: stripping the dread from the data
SN  - 978039334777
U1  - 519.5 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Statistics
N1  - 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


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