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What Is A P-Value Anyway?: 34 Stories To Help You Actually Understand Statistics (2009)

by Andrew J. Vickers(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0321629302 (ISBN13: 9780321629302)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Addison Wesley Longman

review 1: I got asked to analyze some data at work. While I had statistics in college, I haven't done anything with it since, and it's, *ahem*, been a while.I was digging around online, but finally gave up and turned to a professor I know who tries to teach math to poli sci students. After he gently explained that my "double-humped" data was "bimodal" to grownups, I asked for maybe something to read about this? He liked this book (and another one the library didn't have.)I was not expecting it to be as thin as it is - more like magazine thickness. So it's not a huge commitment, and is *extremely* readable. Also well chunked - you don't have to do it all at once and if you aren't it tells you what to go back and read. All points in its favor.But, man, statistics. I read the p-... morevalue chapter at least three separate times over the week I was reading through this book and if you asked me for a definition, I would still stumble (but I'd remember about the toothbrush, so I guess it wasn't a total failure). So I think I can now go back and ask better questions, which is what I needed (but it's not comprehensive by any means!)
review 2: It's a funny, intuitive help for laymen. It's also a place for me, to ponder upon creative ideas for statistics' class for non-math students.I particularly liked some questions from the discussion sections.Samples from the book:* "As you probably know, the hassle of organizing something rises exponentially with the number of people you have to organize, following the famous equation E=mc^2 where E is effort, m is the mean fussiness (or flakiness) of you friends, and c is the size of the crowd. less

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