The art of data analysis : how to answer almost any question using basic statistics
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons Inc ,
c2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Statistics : the life of the party
- 2. Lions, and tigers and ... bigfoot? Oh, my: How questionable data can screw up an otherwise perfectly good statistical analysis
- 3. Asteroid belts and spandex cars: using descriptive statistics to answer your most weighty questions
- 4. Baseball, game shows, and sidekicks: who cares about probability anyway?
- 5. What it's like to be normal: probability distributions and one rule that could make you wildly popular
- 6. Men are insensitive and women are illogical. Really:asserting your stereotypes with confidence
- 7. Godzilla versus King Kong: How hypothesis tests can be used to settle the battle of the movie monsters
- 8. Lab rats and roommates: analysis of variance and how to channel your inner mad scientist
- 9. When the zombie flu went viral: regressing the myth out of urban myths