图书简介

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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