TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheelan, Charles
TI  - Naked statistics: stripping the dread from the data
SN  - 9780393347777 (pbk.)
U1  - 519.5  
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Probability
KW  - Data
N1  - https://wwnorton.com/books/naked-statistics
N2  - A New York Times bestseller

"Brilliant, funny…the best math teacher you never had." —San Francisco Chronicle

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more
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