Beyond basic statistics : tips, tricks, and techniques every data analyst should know /

This book presents the more subjective side of statistics-the 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. Without going into the specifics of theorems, propositio...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jarman, Kristin H.
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2015]
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: It Seemed like the Right Thing to Do at the Time
  • 2.The Type A Diet: Sampling Strategies to Eliminate Confounding and Reduce Your Waistline
  • 3.Conservatives, Liberals, and Other Political Pawns: How to Gain Power and Influence with Sample Size Calculations
  • 4.Bunco, Bricks, and Marked Cards: Chi-Squared Tests and How to Beat a Cheater
  • 5.Why it Pays to be a Stable Master: Sumo Wrestlers and Other Robust Statistics
  • 6.Five-Hour Marriages: Continuous Distributions, Tests for Normality, and Juicy Hollywood Scandals
  • 7.Believe It or Don't: Using Outlier Detection to Find the Weirdest of the Weird
  • 8.The Battle of the Movie Monsters, Round Two: Ramping up Hypothesis Tests with Nonparametric Statistics
  • 9.Models, Murphy's Law, and Public Humiliation: Regression Rules to Live By.