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Author Sowey, Eric, author

Title A panorama of statistics : perspectives, puzzles and paradoxes in statistics / Eric Sowey, Peter Petocz
Published Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, [2017]

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Contents Part I Introduction -- Why is statistics such a fascinating subject? -- How statistics differs from mathematics -- Statistical literacy- essential in the 21st century -- Statistical inquiry on the web -- Part II Statistical description -- Trustworthy statistics are accurate, meaningful and relevant -- Let's hear it for the standard deviation! -- Index numbers- time travel for averages -- The beguiling ways of bad statistics I -- The beguiling ways of bad statistics II -- Part III Preliminaries to inference -- Puzzles and paradoxes in probability -- Some paradoxes of randomness -- Hidden risks for gamblers -- Models in statistics -- The normal distribution: history, computation and curiosities -- Part IV Statistical inference -- The pillars of applied statistics- estimation -- The pillars of applied statistics- hypothesis testing -- 'Data snooping' and the significance level in multiple testing -- Francis Galton and the birth of regression -- Experimental design- piercing the veil of random variation -- In praise of Bayes -- Part V Some statistical byways -- Quality in statistics -- History of ideas: statistical personalities and the personalities of statisticians -- Statistical eponymy -- Statistical 'laws' -- Statistical artefacts -- Part VI Answers -- Answers to the chapter questions
Summary Lending itself equally to reading through and to dipping into, this lively and inviting book will surprise teachers, students and practitioners by the variety of ways in which statistics can capture and hold their interest. -- Edited summary from book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Statistics.
Statistics
statistics.
MATHEMATICS -- Applied.
MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
Statistics
Form Electronic book
Author Petocz, Peter, editor
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