Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Larry Gonick
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Description for Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Paperback. Provides a humorous tour through modern statistics as it is practiced in a wide variety of fields - from the humanities to the sciences. The book begins with a brief history of the subject, then proceeds to cover data analysis, probability and all topics crucial to the study of statistics. Illustrator(s): Gonick, Larry. Series: Cartoon Guide Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, cartoons, index. BIC Classification: JHBC; PBT; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
Updated version featuring all new material. 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 ... Read more
Updated version featuring all new material. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Cartoon Guide Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062731029
SKU
V9780062731029
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About Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California. ... Read more
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