Packed with fresh and practical examples appropriate for a range of degree-seeking students, this easy-to-understand guide covers such key topics as sorting and testing models, using regression to make predictions, performing variance analysis (ANOVA), drawing test conclusions with chi-squares, and making comparisons with the Rank Sum Test.

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason; from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In this book the author demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the arcane and technical details to get at the underlying intuition that is key to understanding...

"Chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing ... statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer ... provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities"--Amazon.com.

"When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad: they were an embarrassment, a club that didn't even appear to be trying to win ... But three years later, the critics were proved improbably, astonishingly wrong. How had...

Football Legends 2024 showcases the top 100 stars currently active in topflight club football. The book offers up-to-date facts and stats of players operating in Europe's elite leagues, with profiles presented using eye-catching info-graphics. The chapters are divided into player positions, namely defenders, midfielders, strikers, goalkeepers, plus a final chapter features the most successful coaches in the game today. The profile-per-page is visually...

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,...

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...

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...

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...