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

Author: Wheelan, Charles J.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.

ISBN: 9780393071955 (hbk.)
0393071952 (hbk.)

Description: xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Statistics.

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.

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