Cartoon Guide to Statistics

by Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith

Overview

If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials 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!

This updated version features all new material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062731029
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/14/1993
Series:	Cartoon Guide Series
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	214,883
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is Statistics?

Chapter 2: Data Description

Chapter 3: Probability

Chapter 4: Random Variables

Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Distributions

Chapter 6: Sampling

Chapter 7: Confidence Intervals

Chapter 8: Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 9: Comparing Two Populations

Chapter 10: Experimental Design

Chapter 11: Regression

Chapter 12: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

A very clever effort at explaining the meaning and use of the major statistical methods through the medium of captioned cartoon drawings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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