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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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Sometimes, learning about statistics can be a bit like peering into a crystal ball. You think you've got it, only to read one more article/paper/blog, and suddenly it's as clear as mud again, and you're further away from the answer than when you first started.
Choosing the correct statistic to use in any given situation can seem like a daunting task at times. When there are numerous possible statistical calculations you can do with your data, there...
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Your correlation results are probably wrong. Sorry, but they are.
You see, there is one really important thing to know about your correlations that mean that whatever results you get you can't be sure they are correct.
This book fixes that.
Correlation is a way of describing how a pair of variables change together as a result of their connection. In other words, if one of your variables changes, the other is likely to change too, and correlations...
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Sarah Palin, abortions, global warming and Usain Bolt. The CEO of Apple, 35 trillion gun deaths in 1995, Fox News and 193%. This book has got scandals galore!
With 9 witty chapters taking you on a roller coaster tour of graphical lies, pictorial deceits and pie charts of mayhem, this might just be the most entertaining book about graphs you'll read this year.
Did you know that between them, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney enjoyed a total...
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In “Multivariate Analysis—The Simplest Guide in the Universe”, award-winning statistician and author Lee Baker guides you through the building blocks of multivariate analysis towards discovering the relationships within your data.
When searching for relationships in your data (associations and correlations), most results you'll get are wrong. In this book you're going to learn precisely why and learn how to make sure you get the correct results...
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