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100	1		_aWheelan, Charles J.
245	1	0	_aNaked statistics : _bstripping the dread from the data / _cCharles Wheelan.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c
300			_axv, 282 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index.
505	0		_aWhere'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.
520			_aDemystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the technical details to examine the underlying intuition essential for understanding statistical concepts.
650		0	_aStatistics.
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