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Meaning from data : statistics made clear / Michael Starbird.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Series: Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. | Great courses (DVD)Publication details: Chantilly, Va. : The Teaching Company, c2006.Description: 6 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (148 pages ; 19 cm)ISBN:
  • 9781598031461 (set)
  • 1598031465
Other title:
  • Statistics made clear
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 S795m 2006
Contents:
Part 1. Lecture 1. Describing data and inferring meaning -- Lecture 2. Data and distributions : getting the picture -- Lecture 3. Inference : how close? How confident? -- Lecture 4. Describing dispersion or measuring spread -- Lecture 5. Models of distributions : shapely families -- Lecture 6. The bell curve -- Lecture 7. Correlation and regression : moving together -- Lecture 8. Probability : workhorse for inference -- Lecture 9. Samples : the few, the chosen -- Lecture 10. Hypothesis testing : innocent until -- Lecture 11. Confidence intervals : How close? How sure? -- Lecture 12. Design of experiments : thinking ahead. pt. 2. Lecture 13. Law : you're the jury -- Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem -- Lecture 15. Election problems and engine failure -- Lecture 16. Sports : who's best of all time? -- Lecture 17. Risk : war and insurance -- Lecture 18. Real estate : accounting for value -- Lecture 19. Misleading, distorting, and lying -- Lecture 20. Social science : parsing personalities -- Lecture 21. Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting -- Lecture 22. Economics : "one" way to find fraud -- Lecture 23. Science : Mendel's too-good peas -- Lecture 24. Statistics everywhere.
Summary: 24 lectures delivered by Michael Starbird, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
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Each lecture transcript and course guidebook covers the 12 lectures contained in each part of the corresponding DVDs.

Course No. 1487.

Part 1. Lecture 1. Describing data and inferring meaning --
Lecture 2. Data and distributions : getting the picture --
Lecture 3. Inference : how close? How confident? --
Lecture 4. Describing dispersion or measuring spread --
Lecture 5. Models of distributions : shapely families --
Lecture 6. The bell curve --
Lecture 7. Correlation and regression : moving together --
Lecture 8. Probability : workhorse for inference --
Lecture 9. Samples : the few, the chosen --
Lecture 10. Hypothesis testing : innocent until --
Lecture 11. Confidence intervals : How close? How sure? --
Lecture 12. Design of experiments : thinking ahead. pt. 2. Lecture 13. Law : you're the jury --
Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem --
Lecture 15. Election problems and engine failure --
Lecture 16. Sports : who's best of all time? --
Lecture 17. Risk : war and insurance --
Lecture 18. Real estate : accounting for value --
Lecture 19. Misleading, distorting, and lying --
Lecture 20. Social science : parsing personalities --
Lecture 21. Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting --
Lecture 22. Economics : "one" way to find fraud --
Lecture 23. Science : Mendel's too-good peas --
Lecture 24. Statistics everywhere.

24 lectures delivered by Michael Starbird, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.

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