What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics

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UPC:
9780321629302
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2009-11-28
Author:
Andrew J. Vickers
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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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.