The political use of numbers: lies and statistics -- Measurement: counting the Biggel-Balls -- Measures of central tendency: that's some mean baseball -- Measures of dispersion: missing the mark -- Continuous probability: so what's normal anyway? -- Means testing: sampling a population -- Hypothesis testing: examining relationships -- Describing the pattern: what do you see? -- Chi-square and Cramer's V: what do you expect? -- Measures of association: making connections -- Multivariate relationships: taking control -- Bivariate regression: putting your ducks in a line -- Multiple regression: the final frontier -- Understanding the numbers: knowing what counts
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