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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Riskby Peter L. BernsteinISBN 0471295639 (0-471-29563-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk'Book summary:With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. [via]
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Applied Statistics for Business and Economicsby Kenneth Mullen, Henrick J. MalikISBN 020101503X (0-201-01503-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrongby Clay Davenport, Neil De Mause, James Click, Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts, Jonah KeriISBN 0465005470 (0-465-00547-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong'Book summary:In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.[via]More editions of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong:
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Baseball Between the Numbers : Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrongby Jonah Keri, Nate Silver, Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts StaffISBN 0465005969 (0-465-00596-9)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball Between the Numbers : Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong'Book summary:In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.[via]More editions of Baseball Between the Numbers : Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong:
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The Basic Practice of Statisticsby David S. MooreISBN 0716726289 (0-7167-2628-9)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basic Practice of Statistics'Book summary:Designed for students who are not from a mathematical background, this introductory statistical text emphasizes ideas over computation. It highlights the relevance of statistical concepts and their applications. Examples are based on real data drawn from a variety of disciplines. An early emphasis on distribution makes difficult topics such as sampling distributions, confidence intervals and significance tests less confusing. Exercises, bullet lists and highlighted boxes are used to reinforce information. [via]
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Beautiful Evidenceby Edward TufteISBN 0961392177 (0-9613921-7-7)
Hardcover, Graphics Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Evidence'Book summary:no marks, almost as new [via]
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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive Youby Gerd GigerenzerISBN 0743254236 (0-7432-5423-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You'Book summary:In the tradition of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, German scientist Gerd Gigerenzer offers his own take on numerical illiteracy. "In Western countries, most children learn to read and write, but even in adulthood, many people do not know how to think with numbers," he writes. "I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk." The author wisely uses concrete examples from the real world to make his points, and he shows the devastating impact of this problem. In one example, he describes a surgeon who advised many of his patients to accept prophylactic mastectomies in order to dodge breast cancer. In a two-year period, this doctor convinced 90 "high-risk" women without cancer to sacrifice their breasts "in a heroic exchange for the certainty of saving their lives and protecting their loved ones from suffering and loss." But Gigerenzer shows that the vast majority of these women (84 of them, to be exact) would not have developed breast cancer at all. If the doctor or his patients had a better understanding of probabilities, they might have chosen a different course. Fans of Innumeracy will enjoy Calculated Risks, as will anyone who appreciates a good puzzle over numbers. --John Miller [via]
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Cartoon Guide To Statisticsby Larry Gonick, Woollcott SmithISBN 0062731025 (0-06-273102-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cartoon Guide To Statistics'Book summary:If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails 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! [via]
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The Cognitive Style of Power Pointby Edward TufteISBN 0961392150 (0-9613921-5-0)
Softcover, Graphics Pr
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Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Withinby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392169 (0-9613921-6-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within'Book summary:In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-resolution 35mm slides. Now "slideware" computer programs for presentations are nearly everywhere. Early in the 21st century, several hundred million copies of Microsoft PowerPoint were turning out trillions of slides each year. Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations? [via]
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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activistsby Joel BestISBN 0520219783 (0-520-21978-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists'Book summary:When it comes to thinking about statistics, there are four kinds of people: awestruck, naive, cynical, and critical. According to sociologist Joel Best, the vast majority of people are naive (yes, you too probably suffer from a mild case of innumeracy), and the result is mutant statistics, guesswork, and poor policy decisions. "Bad statistics live on," writes Best in this highly accessible book, "they take on lives of their own." Take this one: a psychologist's estimate that perhaps 6 percent of priests were at some point sexually attracted to young people was transformed through a chain of errors into the "fact" that 6 percent of priests were pedophiles. Then there was the one about eating disorders. An original estimate that 150,000 women were anorexic, made by concerned activists, mutated into 150,000 women dying from the disorder annually (the truth: about 70 women a year). But these two mutant statistics have been published and passed along as facts for years, enduring long after the truth has been pointed out.
In an effort to turn people into critical thinkers, Best presents three questions to ask about all statistics and the four basic sources of bad ones. He shows how good statistics go bad; why comparing statistics from different time periods, groups, etc. is akin to mixing apples and oranges; and why surveys do little to clarify people's feelings about complex social issues. Random samples, it turns out, are rarely random enough. He also explains what all the hoopla is over how the poverty line is measured and the census is counted. What is the "dark figure"? How many men were really at the Million Man March? How is it possible for the average income per person to rise at the same time the average hourly wage is falling? And how do you discern the truth behind stat wars? Learn it all here before you rush to judgment over the next little nugget of statistics-based truth you read. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Predictionby Jerome H. Friedman, Trevor Hastie, Robert TibshiraniISBN 0387952845 (0-387-95284-5)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction'Book summary:During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It should be a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book.
This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman are professors of statistics at Stanford University. They are prominent researchers in this area: Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Friedman is the co-inventor of many data-mining tools including CART, MARS, projection pursuit and gradient boosting.
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Envisioning Informationby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392118 (0-9613921-1-8)
Hardcover, Graphics Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Envisioning Information'Book summary:This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs, layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17 awards for design and content. 400 illustrations with exquisite 6- to 12-color printing throughout. Highest quality design and production. [via]
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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Marketsby Nassim TalebISBN 158799190X (1-58799-190-X)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets'Book summary:If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Lifeby Nassim TalebISBN 1587990717 (1-58799-071-7)
Hardcover, Texere
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life'Book summary:If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processingby Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich SchutzeISBN 0262133601 (0-262-13360-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing'Book summary:Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 006089637X (0-06-089637-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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How to Lie With Statisticsby Darrell HuffISBN 039309426X (0-393-09426-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Lie With Statistics'Book summary:"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton [via]
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How to Think About Statisticsby John J. PhillipsISBN 0805072551 (0-8050-7255-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Think About Statistics'Book summary:This new edition helps readers to make sense of the numbers that they encounter: as consumers, voters, in business, and in school. Instead of focusing on mathematics and computations, the author explains the underlying logic of statistical analysis and problem solving, building one concept upon another to provide a solid framework for understanding how statistics are used, reported, and manipulated. Examples and demonstrations of real-life applications are included to enable the reader to think carefully about the statistics that confront us daily - in our newspapers, in the classroom, and in the claims of politicians and advertisers. [via]
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- How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716719231 (0-7167-1923-1)
Softcover, W.H. Freeman - How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716722879 (0-7167-2287-9)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co - How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716728222 (0-7167-2822-2)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co - How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716719223 (0-7167-1922-3)
Hardcover, W.H. Freeman - How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716728230 (0-7167-2823-0)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0805072551 (0-8050-7255-1)
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- How to Think About Statistics: ISBN 0716719231 (0-7167-1923-1)
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Innumeracyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0809058405 (0-8090-5840-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innumeracy'Book summary:This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."
But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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- Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences: ISBN 0809074478 (0-8090-7447-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Social Consequences: ISBN 0679726012 (0-679-72601-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Innumeracy: ISBN 0809058405 (0-8090-5840-5)
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- Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences: ISBN 0809074478 (0-8090-7447-8)
Intro to the Practice of Statistic, 4e, Cd + Activities/projectsby David S. Moore, George P. McCabeISBN 0716712059 (0-7167-1205-9)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Introduction to Mathematical Statisticsby Robert V. Hogg, Allen T. Craig, Joseph McKeanISBN 0130085073 (0-13-008507-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Mathematical Statistics'Book summary:This classic book retains its outstanding ongoing features and continues to provide readers with excellent background material necessary for a successful understanding of mathematical statistics. Chapter topics cover classical statistical inference procedures in estimation and testing, and an in-depth treatment of sufficiency and testing theoryincluding uniformly most powerful tests and likelihood ratios. Many illustrative examples and exercises enhance the presentation of material throughout the book. For a more complete understanding of mathematical statistics.
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An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applicationsby William FellerISBN 0471257095 (0-471-25709-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications'Book summary:Major changes in this edition include the substitution of probabilistic arguments for combinatorial artifices, and the addition of new sections on branching processes, Markov chains, and the De Moivre-Laplace theorem. [via]
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Introduction To The Practice Of Statisticsby David S. Moore, George P. McCabeISBN 071676282X (0-7167-6282-X)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Practice of Statistics Ise'Book summary:Presenting statistics from the point of view of working statisticians the book gives examples and exercises based on real data. This second edition has a refined and reorganized the text. The presentation of key concepts has been clarified and consolidated; notation has been simplified wherever possible; and many new data sets have been added. To offer students the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a realistic context, and in recognition of the utility of statistical software, computer exercises now conclude each chapter. In conjunction with this text there is - an instructor/solution manual (including data disks for the (IBM and MAC), a printed or computerized test bank, transparency masters, minitab manual and a student version of data desk with disk, MAC only. [via]
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- Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics: ISBN 0716787687 (0-7167-8768-7)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics: ISBN 0716719894 (0-7167-1989-4)
Hardcover, W.H. Freeman - Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics: ISBN 071672250X (0-7167-2250-X)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics: ISBN 071672880X (0-7167-2880-X)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Introduction to Practice Statistic: ISBN 0716734583 (0-7167-3458-3)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Introduction to the Practice of Statistics Ise: ISBN 071676282X (0-7167-6282-X)
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- Introduction To The Practice Of Statistics: ISBN 0716787687 (0-7167-8768-7)
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Introductory Statistics with Rby Peter DalgaardISBN 0387954759 (0-387-95475-9)
Softcover, Springer London, Limited
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Centuryby David SalsburgISBN 0805071342 (0-8050-7134-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:Science is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminates without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking. This drives his prose, but never at the expense of the reader; if anything, the author has taken pains to eliminate esoterica and ephemera from his stories. This might frustrate a few number-head readers, but the abundant notes and references should keep them happy in the library for weeks after reading the book.
Ultimately, the various tales herein are unified in a single theme: the conversion of science from observational natural history into rigorously defined statistical models of data collection and analysis. This process, usually only implicit in studies of scientific methods and history, is especially important now that we seem to be reaching the point of diminishing returns and are looking for new paradigms of scientific investigation. The Lady Tasting Tea will appeal to a broad audience of scientifically literate readers, reminding them of the humanity underlying the work. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysisby John A. RiceISBN 0534082475 (0-534-08247-5)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning College
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Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis (Cram 101)by Cram 101ISBN 1428814051 (1-4288-1405-1)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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Mathematical Statistics With Applicationsby Richard L. Scheaffer, William Mendenhall, Dennis WackerlyISBN 0534209165 (0-534-20916-5)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaperby John Allen PaulosISBN 038548254X (0-385-48254-X)
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael LewisISBN 0393324818 (0-393-32481-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'Book summary:Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe [via]
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issuesby Joel BestISBN 0520238303 (0-520-23830-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstractby Bill JamesISBN 0743227220 (0-7432-2722-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic'Book summary:In 1985, when Bill James, by then already baseball's "Sultan of Stats" "(The Boston Globe)" and author of a bestselling annual compendium entitled "The Baseball Abstract," wrote a 700-page book entitled "The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," he produced an immediate classic. Lawrence Ritter, author of "The Glory of Their Times," called it one of the three greatest baseball books ever written. Jonathan Yardley of "The Washington Post" wrote, "My own shelf of genuinely first-rate baseball books is very small, but a place will have to be found on it for this one." It's back. "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," like the original, is really several books in one. The Game is a history of baseball, decade by decade, from the 1880s through the 1990s. For each decade, the "New Abstract" offers a bulleted summary incorporating the obvious -- highest batting average, best won-lost record by team -- and the eccentric. Included in the latter are such categories as Heaviest Player (for the 1930s: Jumbo Brown, a 6'4" 295-lb. pitcher), Most Admirable Superstar (for the 1960s: Roberto Clemente), Worst-Hitting Pitcher, Best Minor League Player, innovations in equipment, and dozens more. Also in each decade/chapter are essays on How, Where, and by Whom the game was played; uniforms; Best Minor League Teams; articles on forgotten achievements such as Wally Moses's remarkable 1936 campaign, or Jim Baumann's 72 home runs for Roswell, Texas (the minor league home-run record) in 1954. In The Players, James ranks -- and writes about -- the top 100 players at each position in major league baseball history. To support these rankings, he introduces a remarkable newstatistic called "Win Shares," a way of quantifying individual performance and equalizing the offensive "and" defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. [via]
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statisticsby Alan Schwarz, Peter GammonsISBN 0312322232 (0-312-32223-2)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statistics'Book summary:Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong.[via]
In this unprecedented new book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today's best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845. He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more.
Almost every baseball fan for 150 years has been drawn to the game by its statistics, whether through newspaper box scores, the backs of Topps baseball cards, The Baseball Encyclopedia, or fantasy leagues. Today's most ardent stat scientists, known as "sabermetricians," spend hundreds of hours coming up with new ways to capture the game in numbers, and engage in holy wars over which statistics are best. Some of these men - and women -- are even being hired by major league teams to bring an understanding of statistics to a sport that for so long shunned it.
Taken together, Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.More editions of The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statistics:
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Pocket World in Figures 1999ISBN 0471295981 (0-471-29598-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
Find This BookBook summary:"For settling lunch-table arguments and bets, it is hard to beat The Economist Pocket World in Figures." The Wall Street Journal
A perennial bestseller, The Economist Pocket World in Figures provides important statistical information on nations around the world. Now revised and expanded, the 1999 Edition offers over 200 rankings by topic that include 171 countries, and presents up-to-date profiles of more than 60 major global economies. Covering everything from population and life expectancy to agriculture and tourism, this authoritative reference tells you at a glance:
- Which countries have the highest purchasing power
- Who is the mostand leasttrade dependent
- What city has the highest quality of life
- Where inflation is the lowestand highest
- Who spends the most on health and education
- Which are the largest businesses and banks
- Who recycles the most
- Where the most automobile accidents occur
- Who owns the most televisions and home computers
- And much, much more . . .
Accurate and informative, The Economist Pocket World in Figures is an indispensable resource for those who need key facts and figures about the world today.
THE ECONOMIST, launched in 1843, is the most authoritative and influential international news and business magazine, and is widely read by top decision makers across the world. [via]
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Pocket World in Figures 2002by Economist BooksISBN 1861973519 (1-86197-351-9)
Hardcover, Bernan Assoc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pocket World in Figures 2002'Book summary:The 2002 edition of this annual bestseller has been completely updated, revised and refreshed, with expanded coverage that includes features of the euro zone, and more rankings on the internet and the environment. As regulars will know, the book contains rankings on more than 200 topics in subject areas as wide-ranging as geography, population, business, the economy, trade, transport, finance, industry, demographics, the environment, society, culture and crime. If you want to know * the highest mountain or longest river * where economic growth is fastest or inflation is highest * who consumes most energy * where computer or mobile phone ownership is highest * the highest murder rate * who spends most, and who spends least, on health * the heaviest drinkers and smokers * who recycles most * where the internet has taken greatest hold The Economist Pocket World in Figures has all the answers [via]
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Political Control of the Economyby Edward R. TufteISBN 0691021805 (0-691-02180-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Principles of Statisticsby M.G BulmerISBN 0486637603 (0-486-63760-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Statistics'Book summary:The best intermediate-level explanation of classical statistics on the market! From basic dice probabilities to modern regression analysis and correlation, Professor Bulmer provides explanations, graphs, charts, and problems (with answers). Equal stress is given to theory and applications. The author assumes no previous knowledge of statistics or probability; only basic calculus is needed.[via]More editions of Principles of Statistics:
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Probability and Statisticsby Morris H. Degroot, Mark J. SchervishISBN 0201524880 (0-201-52488-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probability and Statistics'Book summary:The revision of this well-respected text presents a balance of the classical and Bayesian methods. The theoretical and practical sides of both probability and statistics are considered. New content areas include the Vorel- Kolmogorov Paradox, Confidence Bands for the Regression Line, the Correction for Continuity, and the Delta Method. [via]
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Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciencesby Jay L. DevoreISBN 0495382175 (0-495-38217-5)
Hardcover, Duxbury Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences'Book summary:Although the Fourth Edition made significant strides towards the incorporation of computer output and the use of computer-based methods, this has been even further strengthened in the Fifth Edition. In this book, a wealth of exercises are provided throughout each section, designed to reinforce learning and the logical comprehension of topics. The use of real data is incorporated much more extensively than in any other book on the market. Consist of strong coverage of computer-based methods, especially in the coverage of analysis of variance and regression. This text stresses mastery of methods most often used in medical research, with specific reference to actual medical literature and actual medical research. The approach minimizes mathematical formulation, yet gives complete explanations of all important concepts. Every new concept is systematically developed through completely worked-out examples from current medical research problems. Computer output is used to illustrate concepts when appropriate. [via]
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Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences With Infotracby Jay L. DevoreISBN 0534399339 (0-534-39933-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences With Infotrac'Book summary:This market-leading text provides a comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics for students in engineering and the physical and natural sciences. It is a proven, accurate book with great examples from an outstanding author, Jay Devore. Through the use of lively and realistic examples, students go beyond simply learning about statistics--they actually experience its potential. The book emphasizes concepts, models, methodology and applications, as opposed to rigorous mathematical development and derivations. [via]
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Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences/Book and Diskby Jay L. DevoreISBN 0534242642 (0-534-24264-2)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences/Book and Disk'Book summary:This text emphasizes models, methodology, and applications rather than rigorous mathematical development and theory. It uses real data in both exercise sets and examples. New to this edition are the following: real data sets are updated and strengthened; coverage of computer-based methods has increased, especially in analysis of variance and regression; a section on multiple regression has been rewritten; data analysis coverage has been increased in Chapter One; the section on probability has been modernized and expanded; and the chapter on quality control has been updated. [via]
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Probability, Statistics and Truthby Richard Von MisesISBN 0486242145 (0-486-24214-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variablesby J. Scott LongISBN 0803973748 (0-8039-7374-8)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the Worldby Bjrn LomborgISBN 0521010683 (0-521-01068-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World'Book summary:According to The Skeptical Environmentalist the hole in the Ozone Layer is healing. The Amazon has shrunk by only 14 per cent since the arrival of Man. Only 0.7 per cent of species will be driven to extinction over the next 50 years. Even the poorest humans are getting richer by the year. Things are not good enough; but they are far, far better than we have been taught to believe. Lomborg, a professor of statistics and a former Greenpeace member, reveals the complexity, confusion, and (rarely) misuse of data behind the current Litany of approaching environmental Armageddon. But this is not a comforting or reassuring read. Nor is it a bible for lackeys and do-nothings. Lomborg uses the same figures everyone else uses, from national governments to the Kyoto summit to Greenpeace. Rarely have the raw data been discussed in such detail: their history, how they are calculated, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Lomborg argues persuasively that our sense of approaching human and environmental disaster is an artefact of the valid work of modern scientific, environmental and media institutions. There is, he asserts, no one to blame for our growing sense of despair, but everything to learn. We must learn what real risks are, and what we can do about them. (Kyoto? A very bad idea...) We must prioritise. (30p on the organic basil? Or 30p to buy a child clean water in Sierra Leone?) There is, after all, room for manoeuvre; panic achieves nothing. This is our generation's Silent Spring: a book to rewrite the environmental agenda, and a must-buy for any parent who wonders what kind of world we are leaving for our children.--Simon Ings [via]
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Statistical Inferenceby George Casella, Roger L. BergerISBN 0534243126 (0-534-24312-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistical Inference'Book summary:This text provides information on topics such as ancillarity, invariance, Bayesian methods, pivots, Stein estimation, errors in variables and inequalities. The authors discuss both theoretical statistics and the practical applications of the theoretical developments. Many ideas are introduced in the context of data analysis rather than pure mathematics. [via]
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Statistical Methods for Psychologyby David C. HowellISBN 0495012874 (0-495-01287-4)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistical Methods for Psychology'Book summary:Intended for graduate-level courses in statistics for psychology majors, this best-seller has earned high marks among students and instructors for its clear, conceptual approach and strong emphasis on experimental psychology.
The author presents statistics at an intuitive level to give students a sense of how tests work and how they interrelate. Stressing the value of data analysis before jumping in with a hypothesis test, Howell examines the connection between statistical tests and the theoretical questions posed by such experiments to develop students' conceptual skills. New to the Fourth Edition are:
-- Additional real-life examples from published literature, including new extended examples
-- Stronger emphasis on computer calculations, with new output examples from Minitab "RM", SPSS "RM", JMP IN, and SAS computer packages
-- Greater depth on categorical data analysis that gives more attention to odds ratios and less to goodness-of-fit as a guide to interpretation
-- An entirely new chapter on log-linear models and their use in the behavioral sciences
-- An updated multiple comparison chapter that broadens the concept of Bonferroni procedures [via]More editions of Statistical Methods for Psychology:
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Statistical Methods for Psychology With Infotracby David C. HowellISBN 053437770X (0-534-37770-X)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistical Methods for Psychology With Infotrac'Book summary:STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY surveys the statistical techniques commonly used in the behavioral and social sciences, especially psychology and education. This book has two underlying themes that are more or less independent of the statistical hypothesis tests that are the main content of the book. The first theme is the importance of looking at the data before formulating a hypothesis. With this in mind, the author discusses, in detail, plotting data, looking for outliers, and checking assumptions (Graphical displays are used extensively). The second theme is the importance of the relationship between the statistical test to be employed and the theoretical questions being posed by the experiment. To emphasize this relationship, the author uses real examples to help the student understand the purpose behind the experiment and the predictions made by the theory. Although this book is designed for students at the intermediate level or above, it does not assume that students have had either a previous course in statistics or a course in math beyond high-school algebra. [via]
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Statisticsby David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger PurvesISBN 0393929728 (0-393-92972-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistics'Book summary:This revised edition offers explanations of the concepts of statistics. The text should be suitable both for mathematics students and for those studying statistics in the social or medical sciences. It draws on a wide variety of fields, supported by real data. [via]
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Statistics Hacksby Bruce FreyISBN 0596101643 (0-596-10164-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistics Hacks'Book summary:[via]Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage in several real-world situations-including business.
This book is ideal for anyone who likes puzzles, brainteasers, games, gambling, magic tricks, and those who want to apply math and science to everyday circumstances. Several hacks in the first chapter alone-such as the "central limit theorem,", which allows you to know everything by knowing just a little-serve as sound approaches for marketing and other business objectives. Using the tools of inferential statistics, you can understand the way probability works, discover relationships, predict events with uncanny accuracy, and even make a little money with a well-placed wager here and there.
Statistics Hacks presents useful techniques from statistics, educational and psychological measurement, and experimental research to help you solve a variety of problems in business, games, and life. You'll learn how to:
- Play smart when you play Texas Hold 'Em, blackjack, roulette, dice games, or even the lottery
- Design your own winnable bar bets to make money and amaze your friends
- Predict the outcomes of baseball games, know when to "go for two" in football, and anticipate the winners of other sporting events with surprising accuracy
- Demystify amazing coincidences and distinguish the truly random from the only seemingly random--even keep your iPod's "random" shuffle honest
- Spot fraudulent data, detect plagiarism, and break codes
- How to isolate the effects of observation on the thing observed
Whether you're a statistics enthusiast who does calculations in your sleep or a civilian who is entertained by clever solutions to interesting problems, Statistics Hacks has tools to give you an edge over the world's slim odds.
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Statistics Without Tearsby Derek RowntreeISBN 0205395090 (0-205-39509-0)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistics Without Tears'Book summary:This classic book uses words and diagrams, rather than formulas and equations, to help readers understand what statistics is, and how to think statistically. It focuses on the ideas behind statistics only; readers are not required to perform any calculations.
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Statistics without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematiciansby Derek RowntreeISBN 0684175029 (0-684-17502-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392142 (0-9613921-4-2)
Hardcover, Graphics Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'Book summary:A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should occupy a place of honor--within arm's reach--of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. The design of the book is an exemplar of the principles it espouses: elegant typography and layout, and seamless integration of lucid text and perfectly chosen graphical examples. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrativeby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392126 (0-9613921-2-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative'Book summary:With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations centers on dynamic data--information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs.")
Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. The book ranges through a variety of topics, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (which could have been prevented, Tufte argues, by better information display on the part of the rocket's engineers), magic tricks, a cholera epidemic in 19th-century London, and the principle of using "the smallest effective difference" to display distinctions in data. Throughout, Tufte presents ideas with crystalline clarity and illustrates them in exquisitely rendered samples. [via]
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Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afectaby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 8466625127 (84-666-2512-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afecta'Book summary:[via]Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side of everything, from violent crime, parenting, and baby names to the Ku Klux Klan and real estate, demonstrating how economics isn't just about numbers, but a study of incentiveshow people get what they need and want when others need and want the same thing.Comprobando que el estudio de la economía puede explicar como se relacionan fenómenos distintos, este bestseller internacional establece una nueva manera de ver al mundo. Los autores explican el lado escondido de todo, desde crímenes violentos y nombres de bebes hasta el Ku Klux Klan y bienes raíces, demostrando que el estudio de la economía es un estudio de los incentivos: el modo en que las personas obtienen lo que desean o necesitan, especialmente cuando otras personas desean o necesitan lo mismo.More editions of Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afecta:
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