The joy of statistics : a treasury of elementary statistical tools and their applications / Steve Selvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selvin, S., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2019

Summary:

'The Joy of Statistics' consists of 42 anecdotes illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions that the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the painless method and magic of statistics. Statistical jokes, puzzles and folktales are scattered throughout.

Contents:

The Joy of Statistics: A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications 1. Probabilities-rules and review 2. Distributions of data-four plots 3. Mean value-estimation and a few properties 4. Boxplots-construction and interpretation 5. The lady who tasted tea-a bit of statistical history 6. Outlier/extreme values-a difficult decision 7. The role of summary statistics-brief description 8 Correlation and association-interpretation 9. Proportional reduction in error-a measure of association 10. Quick tests-four examples 11. Confounding-African-American and white infant mortality 12. Odds-a sometimes measure of likelihood 13. Odds ratio-a measure of risk? 14. Odds ratio-two propertiesrarely mentioned 15. Percent increase-ratios? 16. Diagnostic tests-assessing accuracy 17. Regression to the mean-father/son data 18. Life table-a summary of mortality experience 19. Coincidence-a statistical description 20. Draft lottery numbers (1970) 21. Lotto-how to get in and how to win 22. Fatal coronary disease-risk 23. Pictures 24. The Monty Hall problem 25. Eye-witness evidence-Collins versus state of California 26. Probabilities and puzzles 27. Jokes and quotes 28. A true life puzzle 29. Rates-definition and estimation 30. Geometry of an approximate average rate 31. Simpson's paradox-two examples and a bit more 32. Smoothing-median values 33. Two by two table-a missing observation 34. Survey data-randomized response 35. Viral incidence estimation-a shortcut 36. Two-way table-a graphical analysis 37. Data-too good to be true? 38. A binary variable-twin pairs 39. Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor-a give and take equilibrium 40. Log-normal distribution-leukemia and pesticide exposure 41. A contribution to statistics Subject Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-187228-8

0-19-257038-2