
Statistics is Easy!
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
2nd Edition
Published on 30. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-60845-570-6 (ISBN)
Description
Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting idea called resampling. This book explains the basic concepts of resampling, then system atically presents the standard statistical measures along with programs (in the language Python) to calculate them using resampling, and finally illustrates the use of the measures and programs in a case study. The text uses junior high school algebra and many examples to explain the concepts. Th e ideal reader has mastered at least elementary mathematics, likes to think procedurally, and is comfortable with computers.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60845-570-6 (9781608455706)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- The Basic Idea
- Pragmatic Considerations when Using Resampling
- Terminology
- The Essential Stats
- Case Study: New Mexico's 2004 Presidential Ballots
- References
- Bias Corrected Confidence Intervals
- Appendix B
- Pragmatic Considerations when Using Resampling
- Terminology
- The Essential Stats
- Case Study: New Mexico's 2004 Presidential Ballots
- References
- Bias Corrected Confidence Intervals
- Appendix B