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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Selvin, S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192570383
0192570382
9780191872280
0191872288