This book consists of 42 anecdotes illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions that the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the painless method and magic of statistics. Statistical jokes, puzzles and folktales are scattered throughout.
This book consists of 42 anecdotes illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions that the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the painless method and magic of statistics. Statistical jokes, puzzles and folktales are scattered throughout.
Steve Selvin is a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught on the Berkeley campus for more than 40 years. Professor Selvin is also a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health faculty and has taught in the Summer Institute of Biostatistics and Epidemiology for the last fifteen years. He lives in the Berkeley hills with two cats, one dog and a wife who is a well known ceramic artist. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific papers in the area of statistics applied to epidemiological/health issues with emphasis on birth defects and childhood cancer. In addition he has written 10 books on applied statistical methods. He has received a number of awards for teaching excellence, including the most prestigious award given by the University of California called the Berkeley Citation. His present research concerns the analysis of spatial patterns of childhood cancers in the state of California over the last decade.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Probabilities rules and review * 2: Distributions of data four plots * 3: Mean value estimation and a few properties * 4: Boxplots construction and interpretation * 5: The lady who tasted tea a bit of statistical history * 6: Outlier/extreme values a difficult decision * 7: The role of summary statistics brief description * 8: Correlation and association interpretation * 9: Proportional reduction in error a measure of association * 10: Quick Tests four examples * 11: Confounding African American and white infant mortality * 12: Odds a sometimes measure of likelihood * 13: Odds ratio a measure of risk? * 14: Odds ratio two properties rarely mentioned * 15: Percent increase ratios? * 16: Diagnostic tests assessing accuracy * 17: Regression to the mean father/son data * 18: Life table a summary of mortality experience * 19: Coincidence a statistical description * 20: Draft lottery numbers (1970) * 21: Lotto How to get in .... How to win * 22: Fatal coronary disease risk * 23: Pictures * 24: The Monty Hall problem * 25: Eye witness evidence Collins versus state of California * 26: Probabilities and puzzles * 27: Jokes and quotes * 28: A true life puzzle * 29: Rates definition and estimation * 30: Geometry of an approximate average rate * 31: Simpson's paradox two examples and a bit more * 32: Smoothing median values * 33: Two by two table a missing observation * 34: Survey data randomized response * 35: Viral incidence estimation a shortcut * 36: Two way table a graphical analysis * 37: Data too good to be true? * 38: A binary variable twin pairs * 39: Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor a give and take equilibrium * 40: Log normal distribution leukemia and pesticide exposure * 41: Poem A Contribution to Statistics * APP: appendix: golden mean, Pythagorean theorem, chord theorem, pi
* 1: Probabilities rules and review * 2: Distributions of data four plots * 3: Mean value estimation and a few properties * 4: Boxplots construction and interpretation * 5: The lady who tasted tea a bit of statistical history * 6: Outlier/extreme values a difficult decision * 7: The role of summary statistics brief description * 8: Correlation and association interpretation * 9: Proportional reduction in error a measure of association * 10: Quick Tests four examples * 11: Confounding African American and white infant mortality * 12: Odds a sometimes measure of likelihood * 13: Odds ratio a measure of risk? * 14: Odds ratio two properties rarely mentioned * 15: Percent increase ratios? * 16: Diagnostic tests assessing accuracy * 17: Regression to the mean father/son data * 18: Life table a summary of mortality experience * 19: Coincidence a statistical description * 20: Draft lottery numbers (1970) * 21: Lotto How to get in .... How to win * 22: Fatal coronary disease risk * 23: Pictures * 24: The Monty Hall problem * 25: Eye witness evidence Collins versus state of California * 26: Probabilities and puzzles * 27: Jokes and quotes * 28: A true life puzzle * 29: Rates definition and estimation * 30: Geometry of an approximate average rate * 31: Simpson's paradox two examples and a bit more * 32: Smoothing median values * 33: Two by two table a missing observation * 34: Survey data randomized response * 35: Viral incidence estimation a shortcut * 36: Two way table a graphical analysis * 37: Data too good to be true? * 38: A binary variable twin pairs * 39: Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor a give and take equilibrium * 40: Log normal distribution leukemia and pesticide exposure * 41: Poem A Contribution to Statistics * APP: appendix: golden mean, Pythagorean theorem, chord theorem, pi
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