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• catalog abstract "A lively and informal introduction to statistics in everyday life. From physics to football, marketing to meteorology, virtually every aspect of modern life involves numbers. But, as statistician/psychologist Joseph Tal writes in this offbeat excursion through the world of statistics, "The numbers must be made to talk, to tell us their story." And that, of course, is where statistics comes in: it is the art and science of getting numbers to reveal present realities and future probabilities.".
• catalog contributor b12029321.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description "A Note on Assessing Validity and Reliability -- Chapter XIV. Samples and Populations -- Language -- Bounding Generalization -- From Samples to Populations -- Statistical versus Everyday Terminology -- Summarizing -- Chapter XV. Estimating Right -- Of Rats and Men -- Bias -- Knowing the Truth -- Back to Ricky -- Some Important Notes -- Sampling Error -- Measurement Error -- Miscellaneous Errors -- Chapter XVI. Models -- What They Are Not -- Figuring Out Nature -- From Sample to Population -- Infinity: A Beginning -- A Different Way of Looking -- Probability -- Area -- Finally a Model -- Chapter XVII. Using Models -- A Start -- Gambling -- George Brush -- A Fine Point -- Chapter XVIII. Another Model -- Charging the Cavalry -- A Different Way of Looking -- Poisson -- A Note on the Poisson -- Chapter XIX. What, Then, Are Models? -- Mathematics -- An Example -- What, Then, Are Models? -- Chapter XX. Sampling Distributions -- The Number Six -- What Is Happening Here? -- Tossing a Die -- ".
• catalog description "A lively and informal introduction to statistics in everyday life. From physics to football, marketing to meteorology, virtually every aspect of modern life involves numbers. But, as statistician/psychologist Joseph Tal writes in this offbeat excursion through the world of statistics, "The numbers must be made to talk, to tell us their story." And that, of course, is where statistics comes in: it is the art and science of getting numbers to reveal present realities and future probabilities.".
• catalog description "Chapter I. Why Statistics -- Communication -- Dehydrating the Primordial Soup -- Seeking Truth -- Chapter II. What Is Statistics -- A Height of Science -- Changing Times -- Nature's Will to Mediocrity -- Chapter III. Names and Numbers -- Telling a Story -- Variables -- On the Unfinished Nature of Statistical Stories -- Chapter IV. Scales of Measurement -- Dichotomous Variables -- Categorical Scales -- Ordinal Scales -- Interval Scales -- Ratio Scales -- Summarizing and a Bit More -- Chapter V. Error -- What We Seek and What We Get -- Getting Answers to Questions -- Systematic and Random Errors -- Chapter VI. Central Tendency -- What We Do -- The Mean -- The Median -- The Mode -- Ordinal Scales and Central Tendency -- Volume Discounts -- Chapter VII. Variation -- From Specifics to Generalities and Back -- Distance -- Measures of Variation -- Chapter VIII. Putting Distance in Context -- Relative Distance -- The Standard Score -- A Fly in the Ointment -- Percentiles -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.".
• catalog description "Relative Standing and Relative Distance -- A Peek Ahead -- A Robust Measure of Spread -- Chapter IX. Descriptive Statistics: A Review and More -- Why We Do It -- How We Do It: Dealing with Error -- How We Do It: Descriptive Statistics -- The Abstract Nature of Statistical Description -- Chapter X. The Significance of Variation -- Variation Exists -- Variation as Uncertainty -- Variation as Information -- The Relationship between Uncertainty and Information -- Chapter XI. Uncertainty, Error, and Uniqueness -- Statistical Uncertainty -- Distance, Uncertainty, and Error -- Prediction -- From Prediction Back to Description -- Terminology -- Chapter XII. From Description to Inference -- Making Connections -- From Description to Explanation -- The Nature of Statistical Explanation -- Chapter XIII. Reliability and Validity -- From the Lab to Life -- Getting It Right -- What Needs Assuming -- Reliability -- Making a Distinction -- Validity -- Another Example -- ".
• catalog description "Why Is This Happening? -- Chapter XXI. Confidence Intervals -- Sampling Error -- A (Partial) Solution -- Distributions and Distributions -- Back to Confidence Intervals -- Yet Another Difficulty -- An Application -- Chapter XXII. Data and Decisions: An Introduction -- Back Confidence Intervals -- Formalities -- Chapter XXIII. Risks and Rewards -- Models Revisited -- On the Difference between Description and Inference -- Risks and Rewards -- Conventional Wisdom -- On Proving the Null -- Where Does the Null Come from? -- Chapter XXIV. Distance Revisited -- Another Kind of Sampling Distribution -- Still Another Method -- Factors Affecting Power -- Chapter XXV. Understanding -- Turning Weakness into Strength -- Formalizing -- Quantifying Confusion and Understanding -- Statistical Explanation.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 285 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Reading between the numbers.".
• catalog identifier "0071364005 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Reading between the numbers.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : McGraw-Hill,".
• catalog relation "Reading between the numbers.".
• catalog subject "519.5 21".
• catalog subject "Mathematical statistics.".
• catalog subject "QA276.12 .T34 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "A Note on Assessing Validity and Reliability -- Chapter XIV. Samples and Populations -- Language -- Bounding Generalization -- From Samples to Populations -- Statistical versus Everyday Terminology -- Summarizing -- Chapter XV. Estimating Right -- Of Rats and Men -- Bias -- Knowing the Truth -- Back to Ricky -- Some Important Notes -- Sampling Error -- Measurement Error -- Miscellaneous Errors -- Chapter XVI. Models -- What They Are Not -- Figuring Out Nature -- From Sample to Population -- Infinity: A Beginning -- A Different Way of Looking -- Probability -- Area -- Finally a Model -- Chapter XVII. Using Models -- A Start -- Gambling -- George Brush -- A Fine Point -- Chapter XVIII. Another Model -- Charging the Cavalry -- A Different Way of Looking -- Poisson -- A Note on the Poisson -- Chapter XIX. What, Then, Are Models? -- Mathematics -- An Example -- What, Then, Are Models? -- Chapter XX. Sampling Distributions -- The Number Six -- What Is Happening Here? -- Tossing a Die -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter I. Why Statistics -- Communication -- Dehydrating the Primordial Soup -- Seeking Truth -- Chapter II. What Is Statistics -- A Height of Science -- Changing Times -- Nature's Will to Mediocrity -- Chapter III. Names and Numbers -- Telling a Story -- Variables -- On the Unfinished Nature of Statistical Stories -- Chapter IV. Scales of Measurement -- Dichotomous Variables -- Categorical Scales -- Ordinal Scales -- Interval Scales -- Ratio Scales -- Summarizing and a Bit More -- Chapter V. Error -- What We Seek and What We Get -- Getting Answers to Questions -- Systematic and Random Errors -- Chapter VI. Central Tendency -- What We Do -- The Mean -- The Median -- The Mode -- Ordinal Scales and Central Tendency -- Volume Discounts -- Chapter VII. Variation -- From Specifics to Generalities and Back -- Distance -- Measures of Variation -- Chapter VIII. Putting Distance in Context -- Relative Distance -- The Standard Score -- A Fly in the Ointment -- Percentiles -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Relative Standing and Relative Distance -- A Peek Ahead -- A Robust Measure of Spread -- Chapter IX. Descriptive Statistics: A Review and More -- Why We Do It -- How We Do It: Dealing with Error -- How We Do It: Descriptive Statistics -- The Abstract Nature of Statistical Description -- Chapter X. The Significance of Variation -- Variation Exists -- Variation as Uncertainty -- Variation as Information -- The Relationship between Uncertainty and Information -- Chapter XI. Uncertainty, Error, and Uniqueness -- Statistical Uncertainty -- Distance, Uncertainty, and Error -- Prediction -- From Prediction Back to Description -- Terminology -- Chapter XII. From Description to Inference -- Making Connections -- From Description to Explanation -- The Nature of Statistical Explanation -- Chapter XIII. Reliability and Validity -- From the Lab to Life -- Getting It Right -- What Needs Assuming -- Reliability -- Making a Distinction -- Validity -- Another Example -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Why Is This Happening? -- Chapter XXI. Confidence Intervals -- Sampling Error -- A (Partial) Solution -- Distributions and Distributions -- Back to Confidence Intervals -- Yet Another Difficulty -- An Application -- Chapter XXII. Data and Decisions: An Introduction -- Back Confidence Intervals -- Formalities -- Chapter XXIII. Risks and Rewards -- Models Revisited -- On the Difference between Description and Inference -- Risks and Rewards -- Conventional Wisdom -- On Proving the Null -- Where Does the Null Come from? -- Chapter XXIV. Distance Revisited -- Another Kind of Sampling Distribution -- Still Another Method -- Factors Affecting Power -- Chapter XXV. Understanding -- Turning Weakness into Strength -- Formalizing -- Quantifying Confusion and Understanding -- Statistical Explanation.".
• catalog title "Reading between the numbers : statistical thinking in everyday life / Joseph Tal.".
• catalog type "text".