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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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"One of the most important books I've ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." – Bill Gates
"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." —Melinda
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Mason Crest
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2015
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IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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In this book, explore the many relationships between mathematics and sports. Start with the obvious--uniform numbers and stats--and continue with high-level analytics that are changing how teams are formed and games are played.
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In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade.And yet, it's wrong to conclude that screaming is not more effective in pilot training, women choose men...
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Este libro busca ofrecer al público una guía para abordar la Estadística Descriptiva para datos categóricos utilizando como herramienta fundamental el software Excel. A lo largo del texto se documenta la recolección, organización, presentación e interpretación de los datos categóricos para la toma de decisiones. Por tanto, el principal objetivo del mismo es la presentación formal de una serie de herramientas que permiten resumir la información...
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This study investigates what young people and community organisations see as their support needs in Bayelsa State of Nigeria in tackling poverty. It also examines the process of influencing policy makers, using social marketing techniques. It seeks to expand understanding of the poverty elimination processes: not only within a developing countrys rural environmental context, but also endeavours to generalize the findings more broadly. It seeks an...
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This book is designed so that doctoral students will experience success and complete their degree. The dissertation process of research methodology and statistics is challenging to most students. With this book they can conquer their fears and move forward toward completion. In a user-friendly, personalized manner, the book guides students through the essential elements necessary for mastering the dissertation data. There are chapters that cover the...
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El propósito de este estudio es la de presentar un formato más amigable en el estudio de la Estadística si se compara con otros textos con la utilización de un lenguaje formal pero sencillo de entender y evitando un nivel de desarrollo matemático muy elevado.
Cualquier tratado sobre Estadística suele provocar dos tipos de reacción, la primera y más común es de alejamiento y hasta de cierta aversión dado que es una materia tradicionalmente...
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Correlation Is Not Causation.
You know it and I know it, and yet we are constantly having to be reminded of it because we can't seem to help but get it wrong.
How many times have you heard someone really smart say something like 'wow, this correlation has a p-value of 0.000001 so A must be causing B…'?
It's not our fault though – we're only human. We seek explanation for patterns and events that happen around us, and if something defies logic,...
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Data cleaning is a waste of time.
If the data had been collected properly in the first place there wouldn't be any cleaning to do, and you wouldn't now be faced with the prospect of weeks of cleaning to get your dataset analysis-ready.
Worse still, your boss won't understand why your analysis report isn't on his desk yet, a mere 48 hours after he's asked for it. Bless him, he doesn't understand – he thinks that cleaning data is just about clicking...
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Pirates, cats, Mexican lemons and North Carolina lawyers. Cheese consumption, margarine and drowning by falling out of fishing boats. This book has got it all.
A roller coaster of a book in 8 witty chapters, this might just be the most entertaining statistics book you'll read this year.
Did you know that pirates caused global warming, and that a statistical lie gave rise to one of the fastest growing religions on the planet? Probably not — you...
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El libro recorre el tema del análisis estadístico de datos categóricos, necesario para que los profesionales de las áreas biológicas, agrícolas, de salud y afines adquieran los conocimientos y herramientas necesarios para un apropiado análisis de datos. En los primeros capítulos se exponen y afianzan conceptos básicos orientados a la comprensión de las herramientas de análisis de datos expuestas en los capítulos posteriores. Se introducen...
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Did you ever want to know the average time it takes to get somewhere based on your cell tower location? Well with statistics, you can calculate things such as intervals, variables, parameters, and others by virtue of using this great math skill. Statistics is concerned with using real world data to effect change in an organization's life cycle. Having a reference guide provides you with the tools needed to solve problems related to customer service,...
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Muchas de las investigaciones en el campo de los negocios utilizan variables cuyos datos son de tipo cualitativo o categórico, en las que no es posible la aplicación de las técnicas paramétricas. Ante esta situación, y debido a que no se dan las condiciones para utilizar los métodos de la inferencia estadística, dada la rigidez en su aplicación, los investigadores se ven limitados a desarrollar solamente un análisis descriptivo y de resumen...
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Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter "D†? are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or that drinking a full pot of coffee every morning will add years to your life, but one cup a day increases the risk of pancreatic cancer? All of these "facts†? have been argued with a straight face by credentialed researchers and backed up with reams...
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Sometimes, learning about statistics can be a bit like peering into a crystal ball. You think you've got it, only to read one more article/paper/blog, and suddenly it's as clear as mud again, and you're further away from the answer than when you first started.
Choosing the correct statistic to use in any given situation can seem like a daunting task at times. When there are numerous possible statistical calculations you can do with your data, there...
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Doing Civility: Breaking the Cycle of Incivility on the Campus explores ways in which members of the college community can take proactive steps to break the cycle of incivility. Civility requires extending mutual respect to others, especially people with different values, beliefs, and ideas. It also involves a civic responsibility to strengthen the community. Doing Civility dives into how civility can be applied in practical ways using real-life student...
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Data is a social phenomenon. This book examines the ways in which we are constantly engaging with data, consciously through the ways in which we provide data about ourselves and without awareness. It analyses the construction and use of statistics by governmental and non-governmental organisations, looking at how statistics are used in social discourse to advance interests and to achieve particular, often political ends. The authors also consider...
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