Description
Book SynopsisLearn how to make informed decisions through statistical reasoning! Using a qualitative approach to introduce statistical reasoning, The Numerate Leader: How to Pull Game-Changing Insights from Statistical Data is a cutting-edge book that helps the reader extract information from unfamiliar data sets. Combining introductory statistics with a few ideas from the philosophy of science, this work helps generalists find patterns that may be expected to recur in the future. Identifying one or two such relationships can be a game-changer for the reader and their employer or client.
Thomas A. King''s revelatory writing is easy to understand and conversational in tone. King makes the complex, tedious topics that you studied in the classroombut likely didn''t yet understandeasily comprehensible. Historical examples and humorous anecdotes illuminate technical concepts so that readers may pull insights from data sets and then explain conclusions reached through effective story
Table of Contents
Preface vii
1. Numeracy 1
2. Zero [0] 13
3. Sample size [n] 25
4. Sample mean [x] 39
5. Sample standard deviation [s] 53
6. Normal distribution [N(x,s)] 67
7. z-score [z] 83
8. Correlation coefficient [r] 97
9. Coefficient of determination [r2] 111
10. Population mean [μ] 121
11. Central Limit Theorem [CLT] 135
12. Standard error [s/√n] 147
13. Null hypothesis [H0] 163
14. p-value [p] 179
15. Slope [r(sY/sX)] 191
16. Causation 205
17. Science 221
18. Questions 231
Appendix A – Glossary 241
Appendix B – Ten math facts numerate people should know 253
References 263
About the author 267
Index 269
