Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Name: Cartoon Guide to Statistics
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ISBN: 9780062731029

ISBN-10: 0062731025

ISBN-13: 9780062731029

Edition: N/A

Authors: Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith

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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 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics 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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/14/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California.