The art of statistics : learning from data /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[London] UK :
Pelican, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Getting things in proportion: categorical data and percentages
- Summarizing and communicating numbers. Lots of numbers
- Why are we looking at data anyway? Populations and measurements
- What causes what?
- Modelling relationships using regression
- Algorithims, analytics and prediction
- How sure can we be about what is going on? Estimates and intervals
- Probability the language of uncertainty and variability
- Putting probability and statistics together
- Answering questions and claiming discoveries
- Learning from experience the Bayesian Way
- How things go wrong
- How we can do statistics better
- In conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index.