عنوان

What is a P-value anyway? :

شابک

0321629302

شابک

9780321629302

شماره

b793750

عنوان اصلي

What is a P-value anyway? :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

34 stories to help you actually understand statistics /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Andrew Vickers.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Boston :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Addison-Wesley,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 212 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction: I tell a friend that my job is more fun than you'd think : What is statistics? -- Describing data: So Bill Gates walks into a diner : On means and medians ; Bill Gates goes back to the diner : Standard deviation and interquartile range ; A skewed shot, a biased referee ; You can't have 2.6 children : On different types of data ; Why your high school math teacher was right : How to draw a graph -- Daily distributions: Chutes-and-ladders and serum hemoglobin levels : Thoughts on the normal distribution ; If the normal distribution is so normal, how come my data never are? ; But I like that sweater : What amount of fit is a "good enough" fit? -- Variation of study results: confidence intervals: Long hair : A standard error of the older male ; How to avoid a rainy wedding : Variation and confidence intervals ; Statistical ties, and why you shouldn't wear one : More on confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing: Choosing a route to cycle home : What p-values do for us ; The probability of a dry toothbrush : What is a p-value anyway? ; Michael Jordan won't accept the null hypothesis : How to interpret high p-values ; The difference between sports and business : Thoughts on the t test and the Wilcoxon test ; Meeting up with friends : On sample size, precision and statistical power -- Regression and decision making: When to visit Chicago : About linear and logistic regression ; My assistant turns up for work with shorter hair : About regression and confounding ; I ignore my child's cough, my wife panics : About specificity and sensitivity ; Avoid the sales : Statistics to help make decisions -- Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us: One better than Tommy John : Four statistical errors, some of which are totally trivial, but all of which matter a great deal ; Weed control for p-values : A single scientific question should be addressed by a single statistical test ; How to shoot a TV episode : Statistical analyses that don't provide meaningful numbers ; Sam, 93 years old, 700 pound Florida super-granddad : Two common errors in regression ; Regression to the Mike : A statistical explanation of why an eligible friend of mine is still single ; OJ Simpson, Sally Clark, George and me : About conditional probability ; Boy meets girl, girl rejects boy, boy starts multiple testing ; Some things that have never happened to me : why you shouldn't compare p-values ; How to win the marathon : Avoiding errors when measuring things that happen over time ; The difference between bad statistics and a bacon sandwich : Are there "rules" in statistics? ; Look at your garbage bin : It may be the only thing you need to know about statistics ; Numbers that mean something : Linking math and science ; Statistics is about people, even if you can't see the tears.

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

Presents the essential concepts in thirty-four brief stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends explanations and humor with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.

عنوان

What is a P-value anyway?

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematical statistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Probability measures.

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistical hypothesis testing.

موضوع مستند نشده

Probability.

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistics as Topic.

موضوع مستند نشده

Allgemeinwissen

موضوع مستند نشده

Matematisk statistik.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematical statistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Probability measures.

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistical hypothesis testing.

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistik

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistik-- Allgemeinwissen.

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistik, Lehrmittel.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Vickers, Andrew.

تاريخ عمليات

20201207065350.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y