Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Provides a humorous tour through modern statistics as it is practiced in a wide variety of fields - from the humanities to the sciences. The book begins with a brief history of the subject, then proceeds to cover data analysis, probability and all topics crucial to the study of statistics.

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.

• | Author: Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith
• | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2000
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780062731029
• | ISBN-10: 0062731025