Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data
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- ISBN: 039334777X
- ISBN: 9780393347777
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What'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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Subject: | Statistics |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QA 276 .W444 2014 | 30775305509052 | General Collection | Available | - |