TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheelan,Charles J.
TI  - Naked statistics: stripping the dread from the data 
SN  - 0393071952 : HRD
AV  - QA276 .W458 2013
U1  - 519.5 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Statistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index; Where's the point? -- Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? -- Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements -- Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? -- Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem -- Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system -- The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" -- The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics -- Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated -- Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : The miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? -- Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer -- Appendix : Statistical software
N2  - Demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts
ER  -