false 168872 3 If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need <I> The Cartoon Guide to Statistics</I> to put you on the road to statistical literacy. <P><I> The Cartoon Guide to Statistics</I> covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant! 163075 25 2 1994 Cartoon Guide to Statistics total:136|5:0|4:2|3:0|2:0|1:0| 136 483 209 24 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Aug 24 19:58:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 03:52:42 -0700 2009 conceptual overview of statistics, the moral equi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:14:29 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:00:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 15:51:22 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 15:55:20 -0700 2009
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