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Statistics Hacks: Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds
by
Bruce Frey
Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research ...more
Paperback, 360 pages
Published
May 16th 2006
by O'Reilly Media
(first published May 9th 2006)
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This is one of those "cookbooks" that tries to boil down the science into a minimal working knowledge.
Lots of "how-to's" split into their own chapters but this isn't the book you want if you really want to understand the background math.
It actually does a really good job for what it is but I wasn't paying close attention when I bought it. If you hate math but need to do some counting then this is probably a decent book to read.
Lots of "how-to's" split into their own chapters but this isn't the book you want if you really want to understand the background math.
It actually does a really good job for what it is but I wasn't paying close attention when I bought it. If you hate math but need to do some counting then this is probably a decent book to read.
It's a decent refresher for the math classes I had that I barely remember. It's also entertaining with good examples and it's simple to find what you're looking for either through the index or table of contents.
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Statistics Hacks: Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds (Hacks) by Bruce Frey (2006)
Light and breezy, but ultimately not enough substance.
dummies version from o'reilly for statistics.
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