Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith

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Book cover for Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith

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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.

Critical 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"

Publishing Information

Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Pub date: 1993-07-14
Length: 240 pages

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