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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wheelan, Charles J.     Subjects     Statistics.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wheelan, Charles J.       by title:      Naked statistics : s...         MARC Display

Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan. by Wheelan, Charles J. New York : W.W. Norton, c2013. Subjects Statistics. ISBN:  9780393071955 (hbk.) : 0393071952 (hbk.) Description:  xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. 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 elixer -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? -- Conclusion : Five questions thathat statistics can help answer -- Appendix : Statistical warfare. Requests:  0 Summary:  Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 519.5 Wh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 519.5 Wheelan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 519.5 Wh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 519.5 Wh Checked out 06/18/2024 Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 519.5 Wh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 519.5 Wh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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