Cartoon Guide to StatisticsIf you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant! |
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ALARM ALTERNATE HYPOTHESIS ANALYSIS APPROXIMATELY NORMAL AREA ASPIRIN AVERAGE BERNOULLI TRIALS BIAS BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION BINOMIAL RANDOM VARIABLE CALLED CARTOON GUIDE CENTER CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM CHAMELEON CHANCE CHAPTER COIN FLIPS COMPUTER CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CRITICAL VALUE CURVE DATA POINTS DATA SET DEGREES OF FREEDOM DICE DIFFERENT ELECTION ELEMENTARY OUTCOMES ESTIMATE EVENT EXAMPLE FIND FORMULA FREQUENCY HISTOGRAM GAMBLING GRAPH GROUP HEART ATTACK HOLMES HYPOTHESIS TESTING INDEPENDENT KNOW LARGE SAMPLE LARRY GONICK LOOK MEAN AND VARIANCE MEASURE MEDIAN MODEL MULTIPLICATION RULE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION NULL HYPOTHESIS NUMBER OF SUCCESSES OBSERVED P-VALUE P(E AND F P(NOT P₁ P₂ PICKLE POLL POPULATION MEAN Pr(z PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM PROPORTION RANDOM EXPERIMENT RANDOMLY RELATIVE FREQUENCY RESULTS RIGGED DATA ROLLS SAMPLE MEAN SAMPLE SPACE SE(X SENATOR ASTUTE SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLE STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERROR STANDARD NORMAL STATISTICIANS TABLE TACKS TEST STATISTIC TOSS TOTAL SPREAD VOTERS WEIGHT DATA WHAT'S X₁ ZOBS