03594nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-61284-8 DE-He213 20251030112618.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240708s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031612848 978-3-031-61284-8 10.1007/978-3-031-61284-8 doi QA276-280 PBT bicssc MAT029000 bisacsh PBT thema Stewart, Robert T. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80176 Adventures in Statistics [electronic resource] : How We Live in a World of Numbers / by Robert T. Stewart. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. IX, 122 p. 14 illus., 13 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World, 2731-8990 Chapter 1. Average -- Chapter 2. Coin Flips -- Chapter 3. First Principles -- Chapter 4. Black Swans -- Chapter 5. Black Swans -- Chapter 6. Counting -- Chapter 7. Correlation -- Chapter 8. Juking the Stats -- Chapter 9. Nirvana Fallacy -- Chapter 10. Statistics Hall of Fame -- Epilogue: Top Ten Podcast Episodes about Statistics. This book is about how statistics play a role in life, whether in business, psychology, biology, economics, or just about anything short of basket weaving. You cannot make a trip to the doctor, watch a football game, or even go to the grocery store without some statistic staring you down. Your age, weight, and cholesterol make you a high risk for diabetes … the chance that your team will win the game is 12.5 percent … 4 out of 5 dentists like this toothpaste. What does it all mean? Adventures in Statistics: How We Live in a World of Numbers tells you what all those numbers mean. But the book does not spit out a bunch of mathematical formulas; the book tells stories. Stories that explain statistics through popular culture, sports, and history. You’re confused about that false positive warning in that drug commercial, the 2007 comedy Juno explains how medical tests – including pregnancy tests – fail and why. Not clear about what your coworkers are talking about when they say, ‘black swans.’ the 1997 blockbuster Titanic makes sense of the concept. Adventures in Statistics: How We Live in a World of Numbers shows how professionals in medicine, business, politics, sports, and many other fields use numbers. So, just about everyone would gain from reading this book, perhaps even basket weavers. Statistics . 65982 Mathematics. 65523 History. Statistics. 65982 Mathematics. 65523 History of Statistics. 72687 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031612831 Printed edition: 9783031612855 Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World, 2731-8990 67839 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61284-8 ZDB-2-SMA ZDB-2-SXMS 61418 61418