The Joy of Statistics
A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 May 2019
- ISBN 9780198833444
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 224x146x16 mm
- Weight 442 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 105 line drawings 0
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Short description:
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.
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The vast majority of statistics books delineate techniques used to analyze collected data. The Joy of Statistics is not one of these books. It consists of a series of 42 "short stories", each illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the often painless method and magic of statistics. In addition, the text contains brief histories of the evolution of statistical methods and a number of brief biographies of the most famous statisticians of the 20th century. Sprinkled throughout are statistical jokes, puzzles and traditional stories. The levels of statistical texts span a spectrum, from elementary to introductory to application to theoretical to advanced mathematical.
This book explores a variety of statistical applications using graphs and plots, along with detailed and intuitive descriptions, and occasionally a bit of 10th grade mathematics. Examples of a few of the topics included among these "short stories" are pet ownership, gambling games such as roulette, blackjack and lotteries, as well as more serious subjects such as comparison of black/white infant mortality risk, infant birth weight and maternal age, estimation of coronary heart disease risk and racial differences in Hodgkin disease. The statistical descriptions of these topics are in many cases accompanied by easy to understand explanations labelled "How it Works."
I recommend The Joy of Statistics to those who want to begin studying statistics or who need a quick refresher book. Dr Selvin does an exemplary job of explaining basic concepts without overwhelming the reader with jargon or dense details.
Table of Contents:
Probabilities -- rules and review
Distributions of data -- four plots
Mean value -- estimation and a few properties
Boxplots -- construction and interpretation
The lady who tasted tea -- a bit of statistical history
Outlier/extreme values -- a difficult decision
The role of summary statistics -- brief description
Correlation and association -- interpretation
Proportional reduction in error -- a measure of association
Quick Tests -- four examples
Confounding -- African-American and white infant mortality
Odds -- a sometimes measure of likelihood
Odds ratio -- a measure of risk?
Odds ratio -- two properties rarely mentioned
Percent increase -- ratios?
Diagnostic tests -- assessing accuracy
Regression to the mean -- father/son data
Life table -- a summary of mortality experience
Coincidence -- a statistical description
Draft lottery numbers (1970)
Lotto -- How to get in .... How to win
Fatal coronary disease -- risk
Pictures
The Monty Hall problem
Eye-witness evidence -- Collins versus state of California
Probabilities and puzzles
Jokes and quotes
A true life puzzle
Rates -- definition and estimation
Geometry of an approximate average rate
Simpson?s paradox -- two examples and a bit more
Smoothing -- median values
Two by two table -- a missing observation
Survey data -- randomized response
Viral incidence estimation -- a shortcut
Two-way table -- a graphical analysis
Data -- too good to be true?
A binary variable -- twin pairs
Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor -- a give and take equilibrium
Log-normal distribution -- leukemia and pesticide exposure
Poem -- A Contribution to Statistics
appendix: golden mean, Pythagorean theorem, chord theorem, pi
