What Is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics

ISBN-13: 9780321629302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str.

Andrew J. Vickers

Opis

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. 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 For all readers interested in statistics.