The Joy of Statistics: A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and Their Applications

by Steve Selvin

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019883344X
• ISBN13: 9780198833444
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"