05125cam a2200805 i 4500 ocn828834229 OCoLC 20171107091603.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 130301s2013 nju ob 001 0 eng 2013008775 9781118413326 (eMOBI) 1118413326 (eMOBI) 9781118413340 1118413342 9781118413333 1118413334 9781118413357 1118413350 9781118514924 9781118514948 9781118514931 9781118514900 9781118411315 (cloth) 1118411315 (cloth) EB00066793 Recorded Books AU@ 000050597474 AU@ 000051817025 AU@ 000052917241 AU@ 000053295832 AU@ 000053734622 CHNEW 000723047 DEBBG BV041907266 DEBSZ 397532598 NZ1 15142883 NZ1 15142927 NZ1 15340381 DEBBG BV041829081 (OCoLC)828834229 (OCoLC)843199450 (OCoLC)854575548 (OCoLC)855306729 (OCoLC)865012280 (OCoLC)868031584 (OCoLC)871019289 (OCoLC)894326478 (OCoLC)945778562 (OCoLC)958095530 (OCoLC)958095550 (OCoLC)958101592 (OCoLC)958390973 (OCoLC)958391135 (OCoLC)958394437 (OCoLC)961667957 (OCoLC)962576244 (OCoLC)966260828 DLC eng rda pn DLC YDX N$T YDXCP E7B MERUC MHW IDEBK CCO CDX DG1 AU@ NOC DEBSZ DKDLA B24X7 UKDOC RECBK COCUF LRU OCLCF DEBBG K6U WTV OCLCQ LOA pcc MAIN QA276.12 MAT 029000 bisacsh 519.5 23 Jarman, Kristin H. The art of data analysis : how to answer almost any question using basic statistics / Kristin H. Jarman. [electronic resource] Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2013] 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The Basics. Statistics: The Life of the Party -- Lions, and Tigers, and ... Bigfoot? Oh, My: How Questionable Data Can Screw Up an Otherwise Perfectly Good Statistical Analysis -- Asteroid Belts and Spandex Cars: Using Descriptive Statistics to Answer Your Most Weighty Questions -- Baseball, Game Shows, and Sidekicks: Who Cares about Probability Anyway? -- What It's Like to Be Normal: Probability Distributions and One Rule That Could Make You Wildly Popular -- What a Few Estimates and a Little Probability Can Do for You. Men Are Insensitive and Women Are Illogical. Really: Asserting Your Stereotypes with Confidence -- Godzilla versus King Kong: How Hypothesis Tests Can Be Used to Settle the Battle of the Movie Monsters -- Lab Rats and Roommates: Analysis of Variance and How to Channel Your Inner Mad Scientist -- When the Zombie Flu Went Viral: Regressing the Myth Out of Urban Myths -- Appendix A: Critical Values for the Standard Normal Distribution -- Appendix B: Critical Values for the T-Distribution -- Appendix C: Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution. "With an emphasis on critical thinking, The Art of Data Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using Basic Statistics presents fun and unique examples, guides readers through the entire data collection and analysis process, and introduces basic statistical concepts along the way. Leaving proofs and complicated mathematics behind, the author portrays the more engaging side of statistics and emphasizes its role as a problem-solving tool. In addition, light-hearted case studies illustrate the application of statistics to real data analyses, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of commonly used techniques. Written for the growing academic and industrial population that uses statistics in everyday life, The Art of Data Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using Basic Statistics highlights important issues that often arise when collecting and sifting through data."--Publisher's website. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Mathematical statistics Popular works. Mathematical statistics Popular works. Mathematical statistics. Statistics. MATHEMATICS Probability & Statistics General. bisacsh Mathematical statistics. fast (OCoLC)fst01012127 Electronic books. Popular works. fast (OCoLC)fst01423846 Electronic books. local Print version: Jarman, Kristin H. Art of data analysis. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2013] 9781118411315 (DLC) 2013000381 (OCoLC)828834121 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118413357 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206521 206521