Everyday Applications, Research Questions, Insights, and Challenges Weihs, Claus. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Krämer, Walter. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Buschfeld, Sarah. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) text gw 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XXI, 252 p. 99 illus., 46 illus. in color. online resource. This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the “average person”, including topics relevant for sustainable development. Technical jargon and formalism have been avoided as much as possible, and a detailed statistical background is not assumed of the reader, making the book accessible to anyone interested in current research in statistical applications. Providing an unobscured look at a thoroughly fascinating science, it will help students to develop enthusiasm for statistical issues and methods, and may even inspire ideas for their ownprojects. Preface -- Part I Human Life, Medicine, and Genetics -- Season of birth and human longevity: A new theory why children born in November live longer -- Where do drugs work in the body? A systematic statistical data analysis -- Drug studies: Using statistics to achieve the optimal dose -- Statistical alarm systems in intensive care medicine -- Personalized medicine: How statistics helps not to drown in the flood of data -- Modulating genetic effects on bladder cancer risk in an area of coal, iron, and steel industries -- Statistics and the maximum human lifespan -- Part II Sports and Entertainment -- Statistics and soccer -- The players’ anxiety at the penalty kick: Who is the best penalty taker, who the best goalkeeper? -- Music data analysis -- Statistics and horse race betting – favorites vs. longshots -- The statistics of the German 6/49 lotto -- Part III Money and Business -- Statistics at the stock exchange -- Statistics in the risk assessment of bank portfolios -- On rating the raters: Statistics in the rating industry -- Gross domestic product, greenhouse gas emissions, and global warming -- Part IV Nature and Technology -- Flood statistics: Still on the river bank or already in the water? -- How statistics helps to reduce rejects -- Statistics and reliability of technical products -- Durable machine components: How statistical design of experiments optimizes wear protection -- Part V Intricacies of Measurement -- Measuring the immeasurable: Statistics, intelligence, and education -- Uncovering embarrassing truths through statistics -- Samples and missing data -- Part VI Language Data -- Who is supposed to read all this? Automatic analysis of text data -- Statistical modeling of current linguistic realities around the world: The case of Singapore -- Linguistic manifestations of cultural differences across national varieties of English – a methodological survey -- Part VII From Here to Where? -- Isdata science more than statistics? The bigger picture. edited by Claus Weihs, Walter Krämer, Sarah Buschfeld. Statistics  Quantitative research Mathematics Applied Statistics Data Analysis and Big Data Mathematics in Popular Science QA276-280 9783662689073 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68907-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68907-3 240627 20251030114626.0 978-3-662-68907-3