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： Naked statistics :
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| ISBN： | 9780393347777 |
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| 编目源： | YDXCP YDXCP BTCTA BDX GK8 UKMGB GL4 SIN |
| 个人名称： | Wheelan, Charles J., |
| 题名： | Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data / Charles Wheelan. |
| 索书号： | C8/W561E |
| 载体形态： | xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| 书目附注： | Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注： | 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. |