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What Is A P-value Anyway? 34 Stories To Help You Actually Understand Statistics

Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: understand, statistics, actually, stories, anyway, value
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-11-28
List price: $33.33
ISBN-10: 0321629302
ISBN-13: 9780321629302
Book Description:
What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.
Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us
For all readers interested in statistics.
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