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The Joy of Statistics - A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications (Hardcover)
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The Joy of Statistics - A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications (Hardcover)
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The vast majority of statistics books delineate techniques used to
analyze collected data. The Joy of Statistics is not one of these
books. It consists of a series of 42 "short stories", each
illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce
insight and solutions to the questions the data were collected to
answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to
demonstrate the often painless method and magic of statistics. In
addition, the text contains brief histories of the evolution of
statistical methods and a number of brief biographies of the most
famous statisticians of the 20th century. Sprinkled throughout are
statistical jokes, puzzles and traditional stories. The levels of
statistical texts span a spectrum, from elementary to introductory
to application to theoretical to advanced mathematical. This book
explores a variety of statistical applications using graphs and
plots, along with detailed and intuitive descriptions, and
occasionally a bit of 10th grade mathematics. Examples of a few of
the topics included among these "short stories" are pet ownership,
gambling games such as roulette, blackjack and lotteries, as well
as more serious subjects such as comparison of black/white infant
mortality risk, infant birth weight and maternal age, estimation of
coronary heart disease risk and racial differences in Hodgkin
disease. The statistical descriptions of these topics are in many
cases accompanied by easy to understand explanations labelled "How
it Works."
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