Rate this book

Naked Statistics: Stripping The Dread From The Data (2014)

by Charles Wheelan(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

039334777X (ISBN13: 9780393347777)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: I have to admit that I always liked math when I was in school. Numbers made more sense to me than words. Kinda ironic that I became a reader over the years as a hobby. Besides knowing basic arithmetic for monetary purpose, everybody should know statistics. We use statistics all the time. Knowing your odds in Vegas to, getting treatment from your doctor. There are stats all around us that we use everyday. "Naked Statistics" is a great introduction to this math problem. Charles Wheelan does a good job an explaining the basic stats that we often overlook. The numbers don't lie when you know the probability and base on the variable, we can decide which course to take.
review 2: I read this book as professional development, and I found it to be both useful a... morend enjoyable. Wheelan gives a clear, detailed, explanation for how statistics can be used well to provide answers to difficult questions. His discussion illuminates the ways in which statistics can be misused or misinterpreted and the ways in which they can be effective. This is not a how-to book; if you need to know how to be a statistician, look elsewhere, but if you want to learn more about how not to be snowed by news stories that use statistical data in a cavalier manner, then this is the book. less

Download links for: Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Advertising