The cartoon introduction to statistics / by Grady Klein and Alan Dabney, Ph. D.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 225 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780809033591
- 0809033593
- 9780809033669
- 0809033666
- 519.5 23
- QA276 .K544 2013
- SK 800
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Book | La Retama Central Library | La Retama Central Library | Nonfiction | 519.5 KLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33185014376727 |
Introduction : they're everywhere ... -- Gathering statistics. Numbers ; Random raw data ; Sorting ; Detective work ; Monster mistakes ; From samples to populations -- Hunting parameters. The central limit theorem ; Probabilities ; Inference ; Confidence ; They hate us ; Hypothesis testing ; Smackdown ; Flying pigs, drooling aliens, and firecrackers -- Conclusion: thinking like a statistician -- Appendix: the math cave.
A journey into the world of big data introduces the methods used to produce numerical information with accessible coverage of such foundational concepts as sample sizes, standard deviation calculations, and the central limit theorem.
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