Naked statistics : Stripping the dread from the data By Charles Wheelan

By:

Wheelan, Charles

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Newyork Times bestsellerPublication details: Newyork: WW Norton & Company, c2013.Edition: 1Description: i-xviii+282PISBN:

9780393347777

Subject(s):

Statistics- Mathematics

DDC classification:

1 519.5 WHE-N

Contents:

Why I hated calculus but love statistics 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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	519.5 WHE-N (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB4191

Author of Naked economics and Naked Money

Why I hated calculus but love statistics
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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