Reading Between the Numbers: Statistical Thinking in Everyday Life
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Reading Between the Numbers: Statistical Thinking in Everyday Life by Joseph Tal
Explains how statistics are applied in our everyday lives. This book draws on diverse examples like how pills are manufactured, elections are forecast, and chess tournaments are structured. It familiarizes readers with variables, means, medians, scales of measurement, sampling, estimating, and other stock-in-trade tools of the statistician.
Joseph Tal, Ph.D. is Managing Director of TechnoStat Ltd., a company based in Israel that provides statistical services for clinical trials, marketing research and industrial engineering. He also conducts a popular series of statistics workshops for non-statisticians in Israel and England. Dr. Tal has worked as a statistician and clinical psychologist and has taught both at Northwestern University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780071364003 |
| ISBN 10 | 0071364005 |
| Title | Reading Between the Numbers: Statistical Thinking in Everyday Life |
| Author | Joseph Tal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2001-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 285 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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