{"product_id":"beyond-basic-statistics-9781118856116","title":"Beyond Basic Statistics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures basic statistical concepts as a tool for thinking critically, wading through large quantities of information, and answering practical, everyday questions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in an engaging and inviting manner, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know \u003c\/i\u003epresents the more subjective side of statisticsthe art of data analytics. Each chapter explores a different question using fun, common sense examples that illustrate the concepts, methods, and applications of statistical techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithout going into the specifics of theorems, propositions, or formulas, the book effectively demonstrates statistics as a useful problem-solving tool. In addition, the author demonstrates how statistics is a tool for thinking critically, wading through large volumes of information, and answering life's important questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know\u003c\/i\u003e also features:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a consistently entertaining and instructive book. The stories are interspersed with serious background material, and the combination works very well. This would be entirely suitable as supplementary reading for a statistics course or for an independent reading project.”  (\u003ci\u003eMAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 20 September 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: It Seemed like the Right Thing to Do at the Time 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Type A Diet: Sampling Strategies to Eliminate Confounding and Reduce Your Waistline 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Conservatives, Liberals, and Other Political Pawns: How to Gain Power and Influence with Sample Size Calculations 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Bunco, Bricks, and Marked Cards: Chi‐Squared Tests and How to Beat a Cheater 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Why it Pays to be a Stable Master: Sumo Wrestlers and Other Robust Statistics 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Five‐Hour Marriages: Continuous Distributions, Tests for Normality, and Juicy Hollywood Scandals 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Believe It or Don’t: Using Outlier Detection to Find the Weirdest of the Weird 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Battle of the Movie Monsters, Round Two: Ramping up Hypothesis Tests with Nonparametric Statistics 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Models, Murphy’s Law, and Public Humiliation: Regression Rules to Live By 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A Critical Values for the Standard Normal Distribution 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B Critical Values for the T-Distribution 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix D Critical Values for Grubbs’ Test 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix E Critical Values for Wilcoxson Signed Rank Test: Small Sample Sizes 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 185\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515637031255,"sku":"9781118856116","price":46.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-basic-statistics-9781118856116","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}