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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

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Audie Award Finalist, Enterprise/Academic, 2014Once thought of tedious, the sphere of statistics is quickly evolving right into a self-discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has really known as “attractive”. From batting averages and political polls to sport reveals and medical analysis, the real-world software of statistics continues to develop by leaps and bounds. How can we catch colleges that cheat on standardized exams? How does Netflix know which films you will like? What’s inflicting the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling creator Charles Wheelan reveals us in Bare Statistics, the suitable knowledge and some well-chosen statistical instruments might help us reply these questions and extra. For many who slept via Stats 101, this ebook is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical particulars and focuses on the underlying instinct that drives statistical evaluation. He clarifies key ideas resembling inference, correlation, and regression evaluation, reveals how biased or careless events can manipulate or misrepresent knowledge, and reveals us how good and artistic researchers are exploiting the precious knowledge from pure experiments to sort out thorny questions. You’ll encounter intelligent Schlitz Beer entrepreneurs leveraging fundamental likelihood, an Worldwide Sausage Pageant illuminating the tenets of the central restrict theorem, and a head-scratching selection from the well-known sport present Let’s Make a Deal – and also you’ll come away with insights every time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer enjoyable that turned Bare Economics right into a finest vendor, Wheelan defies the chances but once more by bringing one other important, previously unglamorous self-discipline to life.

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