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100			_aWheelan, Charles
245			_aNaked statistics : _bstripping the dread from the data _cby Charles Wheelan.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co., _c2014.
300			_a282 p.
500			_aTable 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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