Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (Record no. 71850)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393071955 |
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519.5 |
| Item number | WHE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wheelan, Charles |
| 9 (RLIN) | 121474 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | W. W. Norton and Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 282p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 1. Where's the point? 2. Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? 3. Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements 4. Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? 5. Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your 9 printer 6. The Monty Hall problem 7. Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system 8. The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" 9. The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics 10. Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated 11. Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) 12. Regression analysis : The miracle elixir 13. Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label 14. Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? 15. Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer 16. Appendix : Statistical warfare. |
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| Personal name | Statistics |
| 9 (RLIN) | 121475 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Call number prefix | 519.5 |
| Call number suffix | WHE |
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