The joy of statistics : a treasury of elementary statistical tools and their applications /
This book consists of 42 anecdotes illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions that the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the painless method and magic of statistics. Statistical joke...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book consists of 42 anecdotes illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions that the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the painless method and magic of statistics. Statistical jokes, puzzles and folktales are scattered throughout. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192570383 0192570382 9780191872280 0191872288 |