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This introduction to the world of statistics draws examples from a broad range of applications, including business, government, medicine, social sciences, biology, and everyday life. The first four chapters present a brief course in exploratory data analysis. The authors place special emphasis on methods for collecting data and offer an elementary treatment of multiple regression. A concluding chapter on the design of comparative experiments links...
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In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do...
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Baseball has an image problem. The chorus of nonbelievers gets louder every year, and the Major Leagues have made an art of tuning them out. Enter Joe Kelly: a walking talking, fast-ball-throwing embodiment of why baseball matters. He and his All-Star team of athletes and celebrities have some things to say about what's gone wrong with our once great game and how to fix it. A Damn Near Perfect Game is the loudest insider's expos©♭ of the laws and...
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"An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information. In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer...
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"Who's #1? offers an engaging and accessible account of how scientific rating and ranking methods are created and applied to a variety of uses. Amy Langville and Carl Meyer provide the first comprehensive overview of the mathematical algorithms and methods used to rate and rank sports teams, political candidates, products, Web pages, and more. In a series of interesting asides, Langville and Meyer provide fascinating insights into the ingenious contributions...
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Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong.
In this unprecedented new book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today's best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever...
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"From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to...
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[2023]
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"Experience mathematics like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey through basic mathematical concepts. Does math just make you cringe? Never fear! Learning can be oodles of fun with the... building blocks of math"--Page [4] of cover.
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Who scored the most points? Who played the most games? Which players have carved their names into the WNBA record books? Find out who has piled up the points and see the records that need breaking!
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Este libro busca ofrecer al público una guía para abordar la Estadística Descriptiva para datos categóricos utilizando como herramienta fundamental el software Excel. A lo largo del texto se documenta la recolección, organización, presentación e interpretación de los datos categóricos para la toma de decisiones. Por tanto, el principal objetivo del mismo es la presentación formal de una serie de herramientas que permiten resumir la información...
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"This introductory book on data science builds upon an individual's innate knowledge and arms you with the tools to use this interdisciplinary academic field in everyday scenarios. With straightforward real-world examples and applications, it takes you on a path that may seem daunting but is made simple through Professor Raju's easy manner. It endows you with a holistic and flawless understanding of the fundamental principles required to build a solid...
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Correlation Is Not Causation.
You know it and I know it, and yet we are constantly having to be reminded of it because we can't seem to help but get it wrong.
How many times have you heard someone really smart say something like 'wow, this correlation has a p-value of 0.000001 so A must be causing B…'?
It's not our fault though – we're only human. We seek explanation for patterns and events that happen around us, and if something defies logic,...
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Data cleaning is a waste of time.
If the data had been collected properly in the first place there wouldn't be any cleaning to do, and you wouldn't now be faced with the prospect of weeks of cleaning to get your dataset analysis-ready.
Worse still, your boss won't understand why your analysis report isn't on his desk yet, a mere 48 hours after he's asked for it. Bless him, he doesn't understand – he thinks that cleaning data is just about clicking...
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Pirates, cats, Mexican lemons and North Carolina lawyers. Cheese consumption, margarine and drowning by falling out of fishing boats. This book has got it all.
A roller coaster of a book in 8 witty chapters, this might just be the most entertaining statistics book you'll read this year.
Did you know that pirates caused global warming, and that a statistical lie gave rise to one of the fastest growing religions on the planet? Probably not — you...
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This book is designed so that doctoral students will experience success and complete their degree. The dissertation process of research methodology and statistics is challenging to most students. With this book they can conquer their fears and move forward toward completion. In a user-friendly, personalized manner, the book guides students through the essential elements necessary for mastering the dissertation data. There are chapters that cover the...
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El propósito de este estudio es la de presentar un formato más amigable en el estudio de la Estadística si se compara con otros textos con la utilización de un lenguaje formal pero sencillo de entender y evitando un nivel de desarrollo matemático muy elevado.
Cualquier tratado sobre Estadística suele provocar dos tipos de reacción, la primera y más común es de alejamiento y hasta de cierta aversión dado que es una materia tradicionalmente...
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Did you ever want to know the average time it takes to get somewhere based on your cell tower location? Well with statistics, you can calculate things such as intervals, variables, parameters, and others by virtue of using this great math skill. Statistics is concerned with using real world data to effect change in an organization's life cycle. Having a reference guide provides you with the tools needed to solve problems related to customer service,...
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