Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.
Record details
- ISBN: 039334777X
- ISBN: 9780393347777
- Physical Description: xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
| 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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| Genre: | Statistics. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Coats Public Library | 519.5 Whe PBK (Text) | 33633002027760 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erwin Public Library | 519.5 Whe (Text) | 33631001595530 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
