Naked statistics stripping the dread from the data
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York : London :
W.W. Norton & Company
cop. 2013
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b28811550*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 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 warfare.
