Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheelan, Charles J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.

Summary:

Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.

Contents:

Where'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 warfare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index.

ISBN:

9780393071955

0393071952

OCLC:

783162698