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Joy of Statistics

A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications

Selvin, Prof Steve

Oxford University Press

05/2019

226

Dura

Inglês

9780198833444

15 a 20 dias

442

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1: Probabilities -- rules and review
2: Distributions of data -- four plots
3: Mean value -- estimation and a few properties
4: Boxplots -- construction and interpretation
5: The lady who tasted tea -- a bit of statistical history
6: Outlier/extreme values -- a difficult decision
7: The role of summary statistics -- brief description
8: Correlation and association -- interpretation
9: Proportional reduction in error -- a measure of association
10: Quick Tests -- four examples
11: Confounding -- African-American and white infant mortality
12: Odds -- a sometimes measure of likelihood
13: Odds ratio -- a measure of risk?
14: Odds ratio -- two properties rarely mentioned
15: Percent increase -- ratios?
16: Diagnostic tests -- assessing accuracy
17: Regression to the mean -- father/son data
18: Life table -- a summary of mortality experience
19: Coincidence -- a statistical description
20: Draft lottery numbers (1970)
21: Lotto -- How to get in .... How to win
22: Fatal coronary disease -- risk
23: Pictures
24: The Monty Hall problem
25: Eye-witness evidence -- Collins versus state of California
26: Probabilities and puzzles
27: Jokes and quotes
28: A true life puzzle
29: Rates -- definition and estimation
30: Geometry of an approximate average rate
31: Simpson>'s paradox -- two examples and a bit more
32: Smoothing -- median values
33: Two by two table -- a missing observation
34: Survey data -- randomized response
35: Viral incidence estimation -- a shortcut
36: Two-way table -- a graphical analysis
37: Data -- too good to be true?
38: A binary variable -- twin pairs
39: Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor -- a give and take equilibrium
40: Log-normal distribution -- leukemia and pesticide exposure
41: Poem -- A Contribution to Statistics
APP: appendix: golden mean, Pythagorean theorem, chord theorem, pi
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