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基本説明
邦訳：2013年1月・丸善出版。
Full Description
What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.
KEY TOPICS: Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us
MARKET: For all readers interested in statistics.
Contents
Introduction
0. How to read this book
1. I tell a friend that my job is more fun than you'd think: What is statistics?
Describing data
2. So Bill Gates walks into a diner: on means and medians
3. Bill Gates goes back to the diner: standard deviation and interquartile range
4. A skewed shot, a biased referee
5. You can't have 2.6 children: on different types of data
6. Why your high school math teacher was right: how to draw a graph
Data distributions
7. Chutes-and-ladders and serum hemoglobin levels: thoughts on the normal distribution
8. If the normal distribution is so normal, how come my data never are?
9. But I like that sweater: what amount of fit is a "good enough" fit?
Variation of study results: confidence intervals
10. Long hair: a standard error of the older male
11. How to avoid a rainy wedding: variation and confidence
12. Statistical ties, and why you shouldn't wear one: more on confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
13. Choosing a route to cycle home: what p-values do for us
14. A statistical theory of how to get a five-year old boy to brush his teeth: defining the p-value
15. Michael Jordan won't accept the null hypothesis: how to interpret high p-values
16. The difference between sports and business: thoughts on the t test and the Wilcoxon test
17. Meeting up with friends: on sample size, precision and statistical power
Regression and decision making
18. When to visit Chicago: about linear and logistic regression
19. My assistant turns up for work with shorter hair: about regression and confounding
20. I ignore my child's cough, my wife panics: about specificity and sensitivity
21. Avoid the sales: statistics to help make decisions
Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us
22. One better than Tommy John: four statistical errors that are totally trivial, but which matter a great deal
23. Weed control for p-values: a single scientific question should be addressed by a single statistical test
24. How to shoot a TV episode: avoiding statistical analyses that don't provide meaningful numbers
25. Sam, 93 years old, 700 pound Florida super-granddad: two common errors in regression
26. Regression to the Mike: a statistical explanation of why an eligible friend of mine is still single
27. OJ Simpson, Sally Clark, George and me: about conditional probability
28. Boy meets girls, girl rejects boy, boy starts multiple testing
29. Some things that have never happened to me: why you shouldn't compare p-values
30. How to win the marathon: avoiding errors when measuring things that happen over time
31. The difference between bad statistics and a bacon sandwich: are there "rules" in statistics?
32. Look at your garbage bin: it may be the only thing you need to know about statistics
33. Numbers that mean something: linking math and science
34. Statistics is about people, even if you can't see the tears
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