Statistics Today : Everyday Applications, Research Questions, Insights, and Challenges / edited by Claus Weihs, Walter Krämer, Sarah Buschfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weihs, Claus, editor.

Krämer, Walter, editor.

Buschfeld, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Society, Environment and Statistics, 2948-2771

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics.

Quantitative research.

Mathematics.

Applied Statistics.

Data Analysis and Big Data.

Mathematics in Popular Science.

Local Subjects:

Applied Statistics.

Data Analysis and Big Data.

Mathematics in Popular Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the “average person”, including topics relevant for sustainable development. Technical jargon and formalism have been avoided as much as possible, and a detailed statistical background is not assumed of the reader, making the book accessible to anyone interested in current research in statistical applications. Providing an unobscured look at a thoroughly fascinating science, it will help students to develop enthusiasm for statistical issues and methods, and may even inspire ideas for their ownprojects.

Contents:

Preface

Part I Human Life, Medicine, and Genetics

Season of birth and human longevity: A new theory why children born in November live longer

Where do drugs work in the body? A systematic statistical data analysis

Drug studies: Using statistics to achieve the optimal dose

Statistical alarm systems in intensive care medicine

Personalized medicine: How statistics helps not to drown in the flood of data

Modulating genetic effects on bladder cancer risk in an area of coal, iron, and steel industries

Statistics and the maximum human lifespan

Part II Sports and Entertainment

Statistics and soccer

The players’ anxiety at the penalty kick: Who is the best penalty taker, who the best goalkeeper?

Music data analysis

Statistics and horse race betting – favorites vs. longshots

The statistics of the German 6/49 lotto

Part III Money and Business

Statistics at the stock exchange

Statistics in the risk assessment of bank portfolios

On rating the raters: Statistics in the rating industry

Gross domestic product, greenhouse gas emissions, and global warming

Part IV Nature and Technology

Flood statistics: Still on the river bank or already in the water?

How statistics helps to reduce rejects

Statistics and reliability of technical products

Durable machine components: How statistical design of experiments optimizes wear protection

Part V Intricacies of Measurement

Measuring the immeasurable: Statistics, intelligence, and education

Uncovering embarrassing truths through statistics

Samples and missing data

Part VI Language Data

Who is supposed to read all this? Automatic analysis of text data

Statistical modeling of current linguistic realities around the world: The case of Singapore

Linguistic manifestations of cultural differences across national varieties of English – a methodological survey

Part VII From Here to Where?

Isdata science more than statistics? The bigger picture.

ISBN:

9783662689073

3662689073