{"product_id":"the-joy-of-statistics-steve-selvin-9780198833444","title":"The Joy of Statistics: A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and Their Applications","description":"The vast majority of statistics books delineate techniques used to analyze collected data. \u003cem\u003eThe Joy of Statistics\u003c\/em\u003e is not one of these books. It consists of a series of 42 \"short stories\", each illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions the data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the often painless method and magic of statistics. In addition, the text contains brief histories of the evolution of statistical methods and a number of brief biographies of the most famous statisticians of the 20th century. Sprinkled throughout are statistical jokes, puzzles and traditional stories. The levels of statistical texts span a spectrum, from elementary to introductory to application to theoretical to advanced mathematical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores a variety of statistical applications using graphs and plots, along with detailed and intuitive descriptions, and occasionally a bit of 10th grade mathematics. Examples of a few of the topics included among these \"short stories\" are pet ownership, gambling games such as roulette, blackjack and lotteries, as well as more serious subjects such as comparison of black\/white infant mortality risk, infant birth weight and maternal age, estimation of coronary heart disease risk and racial differences in Hodgkin disease. The statistical descriptions of these topics are in many cases accompanied by easy to understand explanations labelled \"How it Works.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Selvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019883344X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198833444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2020","brand":"Steve Selvin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981492617471,"sku":"9780198833444","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc76bc9f-ec66-462f-9b15-9b7692cabc20.jpg?v=1683255900","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-joy-of-statistics-steve-selvin-9780198833444","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}