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How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff, Irving Geis (1954)

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless ...

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The cartoon guide to statistics

Larry Gonick, Woollcott K. Smith • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (1993)

Updated version featuring all new material. 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 yo...

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INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS

Daniel J. Denis • Wiley eBooks (2021)

There are numerous probability distributions or density functions. Empirical distributions rarely go by the name of densities. The normal density has figured prominent in the history of statistics largely because it serves as a useful model...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119583004.ch2

Statistics and Decisions

S. H. Kim • Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks (2020)

This book provides the necessary prerequisites in probability and statistics as well as the key ideas in decision theory. It is helpful to students and practitioners who desire to apply decision-theoretic thinking to their own work....

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003062141

Statistics of Extremes

Emil Julius Gumbel • Columbia University Press eBooks (1958)

This classic text covers order statistics and their exceedances; exact distribution of extremes; the 1st asymptotic distribution; uses of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd asymptotes; more. 1958 edition. Includes 44 tables and 97 graphs....

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/gumb92958