| Introduction: Why I hated calculus but love statistics |
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| Acknowledgments |
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2 Descriptive Statistics: Who was the best baseball player of all time? |
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34 | (2) |
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3 Deceptive Description: "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements |
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36 | (22) |
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4 Correlation: How does Netflix know what movies I like? |
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58 | (10) |
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65 | (3) |
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5 Basic Probability: Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer |
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68 | (27) |
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5 1/2 The Monty Hall Problem |
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90 | (5) |
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6 Problems with Probability: How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system |
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7 The Importance of Data: "Garbage in, garbage out" |
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110 | (17) |
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8 The Central Limit Theorem: The Lebron James of statistics |
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127 | (16) |
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9 Inference: Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated |
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143 | (26) |
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164 | (5) |
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10 Polling: How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penally (with a sampling error ± 3 percent) |
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169 | (16) |
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183 | (2) |
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11 Regression Analysis: The miracle elixir |
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185 | (27) |
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208 | (4) |
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12 Common Regression Mistakes: The mandatory warning label |
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212 | (13) |
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13 Program Evaluation: Will going to Harvard change your life? |
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225 | (16) |
| Conclusion: Five questions that statistics can help answer |
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241 | (16) |
| Appendix: Statistical software |
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257 | (4) |
| Notes |
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| Index |
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