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245 10 a| Naked statistics :b| stripping the dread from the data /c| Charles Wheelan.;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| W.W. Norton & Company,c| [2013];

300 a| xviii, 282 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: 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.;

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

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

Author/creator	Wheelan, Charles J.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Description	xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Statistics.

Contents	Introduction: 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.
Abstract	Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
LCCN	2012034411
ISBN	9780393071955 (hardcover)
ISBN	0393071952 (hardcover)

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