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Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Cartoon Guide to Statistics
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Larry Gonick
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By (author) Woollcott Smith
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| Series | Cartoon Guide Series |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:240 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 187 |
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| Category/Genre | Probability and statistics
Humour |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780062731029
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| Classifications | Dewey:519.5 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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| Imprint |
William Morrow Paperbacks
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| Publication Date |
27 July 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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 restaurant! This updated version features all new material.
Author Biography
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. 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 staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
Reviews"Gonick is so consistently witty and clever that the reader is barely aware of being given a thorough grounding.""--Omni""Gonick is one of a kind.""--Discover"
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