Online Resource
Cham, Switzerland :Springer Nature Switzerland AG,
UID:
edoccha_9961612703702883
Format:
1 online resource (122 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9783031612848
Series Statement:
Copernicus Bks
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Average -- You Are Not Average -- Averages Mislead -- Averages Confound -- Average People Innovate -- Average Is Beautiful -- 2: Coin Flips -- Sacred Coin Flips -- History of Coin Flips -- Independence and Coin Flips -- Tragedy and Coin Flips -- Anxiety and Coin Flips -- 3: First Principles -- Detective Work -- The Normal Distribution -- Power Laws -- First Principles -- 4: Black Swans -- Black Swans -- Sand Piles -- Streaks -- Cartesian Anxiety Revisited -- 5: False Positives -- Kind of Pregnant -- Kind of Guilty -- Kind of Confusing -- Hypothesis Testing -- 6: Counting -- Counting Cows -- Measuring -- Counting Big Numbers -- Unrepresentative Samples -- Coronavirus (Covid-19) -- 7: Correlation -- Golden Ticket -- Spurious -- Abortion -- Randomization -- Smoking and Cancer -- 8: Juking the Stats -- Good Luck -- Goodhart's Law -- Multiple Numbers -- Banners and Banquets -- Genius Duped -- 9: Nirvana Fallacy -- Nirvana Fallacy -- "Analytics Don't Work" -- "The NBA Is About Talent" -- "He's One of Those Idiots Who Believes in Analytics" -- The Hidden Half -- 10: Statistics Hall of Fame -- Inaugural Class -- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) -- Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962) -- Edward O. Thorp (1932-) -- Hans Rosling (1948-2017) -- Bill James (1949-) -- Statistical Adventures -- Epilogue: Top Ten Podcast Episodes About Statistics -- Top Ten -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights -- Episode Highlights.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stewart, Robert T. Adventures in Statistics Cham : Springer,c2024 ISBN 9783031612831
Language:
English
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