Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data - Charles Wheelan - Audiobook - MP3 - ONTHAT

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Title: Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Author: Charles Wheelan

Category: Audiobook

Narrated By: Jonathan Davis

Duration: 10:49:01

Type: MP3

Size: 297.2 MB

Bitrate: 128 Kb/s



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Audie Award Finalist, Business/Educational, 2014

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline
Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy". From batting
averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world
application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch
schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll
like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles
Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical
tools can help us answer these questions and more.

For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away
the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives
statistical analysis. He clarifies key concepts such as inference, correlation, and
regression analysis, reveals how biased or careless parties can manipulate or
misrepresent data, and shows us how brilliant and creative researchers are exploiting
the valuable data from natural experiments to tackle thorny questions.

You’ll encounter clever Schlitz Beer marketers leveraging basic probability, an
International Sausage Festival illuminating the tenets of the central limit theorem,
and a head-scratching choice from the famous game show Let’s Make a Deal - and you’ll
come away with insights each time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer fun that
turned Naked Economics into a best seller, Wheelan defies the odds yet again by
bringing another essential, formerly unglamorous discipline to life.
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