Naked Statistics: The Most Interesting Book About the Most Boring Science
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Naked Statistics: The Most Interesting Book About the Most Boring Science
29.99 €
The first book on statistics that is fun (and useful) to read. Most people (especially students, although they may passionately discuss their grade point averages and the statistical performance of their favorite baseball players after a statistics class) think statistics is a dull and useless science. So why does Google's chief economist call it "sexy"? Actually, statistics is very interesting, if you talk about it like Charlie Whelan, and practical, because it answers so many important questions: How does Netflix determine which movies you'll like? What is the right behavior when solving the Monty Hall Paradox? How do you determine which habits and behaviors cause cancer without doing experiments on humans? Does it help patients to have someone pray for them? Are there economic benefits to earning a degree? How do you determine which schools are cheating on test scores? How do you compare two players in baseball (basketball, soccer, other game sport)? How can you draw accurate conclusions about the entire population of a country by interviewing several thousand people? How can a supermarket determine pregnancy just from a shopping list (none of which directly indicates pregnancy)? Statistics helps to make important social decisions, to find hidden connections between phenomena, to better understand the situation in business and in the market. Charles Whelan describes how statistics helps to find answers to these and other questions, and does it with humor and brilliant visual examples. For students and those who will want to put what they've learned to work, each chapter has an appendix with basic formulas and graphs that can be skipped if you just want to learn more about statistics and understand its key metrics and ideas. At the end of the book there is an overview of the main applications for working with statistics, which will come in handy for all practitioners. Who this book is for: For students who don't like or understand statistics but want to understand it. For marketers, managers, and analysts who want to understand statistics and analyze data. For anyone who is curious about how statistics works.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Economics with Charles Whelan