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The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

by Larry Gonick
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/1994

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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!

ISBN:
9780613919036
9780613919036
Category:
Economic statistics
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-02-1994
Publisher:
Perfection Learning Corporation
Country of origin:
United States
Larry Gonick

Larry Gonick, a cartoonist specialising in nonfiction books, is best known for his Cartoon Histories and his Cartoon Guides to various sciences, and is a co-author, with Tim Kasser, of Hyper-Capitalism: the modern economy, its values, and how to change them. He lives in San Francisco.

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