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"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
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As America's pastime since the mid-1800s, baseball offers the sights, sounds, and even smells that are deeply entrenched in our culture. But for some, the experience can be less sensory. Some, such as Ryan Spaeder and Kevin Reavy, live for baseball statistics. Stats give the game historical context and measurable for past, present, and predictive analysis.
Incredible Baseball Stats, newly updated, helps tell unique baseball stories, showcasing extraordinary...
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In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade.And yet, it's wrong to conclude that screaming is not more effective in pilot training, women choose men...
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An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand unveils his groundbreaking argument that extraordinarily rare events are in fact commonplace. Weaving together fascinating new ways to think about chance, Hand highlights his "law of near enough," the "look elsewhere effect," and more, doing for probability what Newton's laws of motion...
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Este libro busca ofrecer al público una guía para abordar la Estadística Descriptiva para datos categóricos utilizando como herramienta fundamental el software Excel. A lo largo del texto se documenta la recolección, organización, presentación e interpretación de los datos categóricos para la toma de decisiones. Por tanto, el principal objetivo del mismo es la presentación formal de una serie de herramientas que permiten resumir la información...
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Pirates, cats, Mexican lemons and North Carolina lawyers. Cheese consumption, margarine and drowning by falling out of fishing boats. This book has got it all.
A roller coaster of a book in 8 witty chapters, this might just be the most entertaining statistics book you'll read this year.
Did you know that pirates caused global warming, and that a statistical lie gave rise to one of the fastest growing religions on the planet? Probably not — you...
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Data cleaning is a waste of time.
If the data had been collected properly in the first place there wouldn't be any cleaning to do, and you wouldn't now be faced with the prospect of weeks of cleaning to get your dataset analysis-ready.
Worse still, your boss won't understand why your analysis report isn't on his desk yet, a mere 48 hours after he's asked for it. Bless him, he doesn't understand – he thinks that cleaning data is just about clicking...
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Correlation Is Not Causation.
You know it and I know it, and yet we are constantly having to be reminded of it because we can't seem to help but get it wrong.
How many times have you heard someone really smart say something like 'wow, this correlation has a p-value of 0.000001 so A must be causing B…'?
It's not our fault though – we're only human. We seek explanation for patterns and events that happen around us, and if something defies logic,...
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This study investigates what young people and community organisations see as their support needs in Bayelsa State of Nigeria in tackling poverty. It also examines the process of influencing policy makers, using social marketing techniques. It seeks to expand understanding of the poverty elimination processes: not only within a developing countrys rural environmental context, but also endeavours to generalize the findings more broadly. It seeks an...
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El libro recorre el tema del análisis estadístico de datos categóricos, necesario para que los profesionales de las áreas biológicas, agrícolas, de salud y afines adquieran los conocimientos y herramientas necesarios para un apropiado análisis de datos. En los primeros capítulos se exponen y afianzan conceptos básicos orientados a la comprensión de las herramientas de análisis de datos expuestas en los capítulos posteriores. Se introducen...
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Did you ever want to know the average time it takes to get somewhere based on your cell tower location? Well with statistics, you can calculate things such as intervals, variables, parameters, and others by virtue of using this great math skill. Statistics is concerned with using real world data to effect change in an organization's life cycle. Having a reference guide provides you with the tools needed to solve problems related to customer service,...
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El propósito de este estudio es la de presentar un formato más amigable en el estudio de la Estadística si se compara con otros textos con la utilización de un lenguaje formal pero sencillo de entender y evitando un nivel de desarrollo matemático muy elevado.
Cualquier tratado sobre Estadística suele provocar dos tipos de reacción, la primera y más común es de alejamiento y hasta de cierta aversión dado que es una materia tradicionalmente...
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This book is designed so that doctoral students will experience success and complete their degree. The dissertation process of research methodology and statistics is challenging to most students. With this book they can conquer their fears and move forward toward completion. In a user-friendly, personalized manner, the book guides students through the essential elements necessary for mastering the dissertation data. There are chapters that cover the...
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Muchas de las investigaciones en el campo de los negocios utilizan variables cuyos datos son de tipo cualitativo o categórico, en las que no es posible la aplicación de las técnicas paramétricas. Ante esta situación, y debido a que no se dan las condiciones para utilizar los métodos de la inferencia estadística, dada la rigidez en su aplicación, los investigadores se ven limitados a desarrollar solamente un análisis descriptivo y de resumen...
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