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| Introduction | |
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| How to Read this Book | |
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| I tell a friend that my job is more fun than you'd think: What is statistics? | |
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| Describing Data | |
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| So Bill Gates walks into a diner: On means and medians | |
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| Bill Gates goes back to the diner: Standard deviation and interquartile range | |
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| A skewed shot, a biased referee | |
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| You can't have 2.6 children: On different types of data | |
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| Why your high school math teacher was right: How to draw a graph | |
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| Data Distributions | |
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| Chutes-and-ladders and serum hemoglobin levels: Thoughts on the normal distribution | |
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| If the normal distribution is so normal, how come my dat'a never are? | |
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| But I like that sweater: What amount of fit is a "good enough" fit? | |
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| Variation of Study Results: Confidence Intervals | |
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| Long hair: A standard error of the older male | |
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| How to avoid a rainy wedding: Variation and confidence intervals | |
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| Statistical ties, and why you shouldn't wear one: More on confidence intervals | |
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| Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Choosing a route to cycle home: What p-values do for us | |
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| The probability of a dry toothbrush: What is a p-value anyway? | |
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| Michael Jordan won't accept the null hypothesis: How to interpret high p-values | |
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| The difference between sports and business: Thoughts on the t test and the Wilcoxon test | |
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| Meeting up with friends: On sample size, precision and statistical power | |
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| Regression and Decision Making | |
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| When to visit Chicago: About linear and logistic regression | |
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| My assistant turns up for work with shorter hair: About regression and confounding | |
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| I ignore my child's cough, my wife panics: About specificity and sensitivity | |
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| Avoid the sales: Statistics to help make decisions | |
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| Some Common Statistical Errors, and What They Teach Us | |
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| One better than Tommy John: Four statistical errors, some of which are totally trivial, but all of which matter a great deal | |
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| Weed control for p-values: A single scientific question should be addressed by a single statistical test | |
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| How to shoot a TV episode: Statistical analyses that don't provide meaningful numbers | |
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| Sam, 93 years old, 700 pound Florida super-granddad: Two common errors in regression | |
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| Regression to the Mike: A statistical explanation of why an eligible friend of mine is still single | |
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| OJ Simpson, Sally Clark, George and me: About conditional probability | |
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| Boy meets girl, girl rejects boy, boy starts multiple testing | |
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| Some things that have never happened to me: Why you shouldn't compare p-values | |
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| How to win the marathon: Avoiding errors when measuring things that happen over time | |
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| The difference between bad statistics and a bacon sandwich: Are there "rules" in statistics? | |
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| Look at your garbage bin: It may be the only thing you need to know about statistics | |
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| Numbers that mean something: Linking math and science | |
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| Statistics is about people, even if you can't see the tears | |
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| Discussion Section Answers | |
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| Credits and References | |
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| Index | |