{"product_id":"the-joy-of-statistics-a-treasury-of-elementary-statistical-tools-and-their-applications-9780198833444","title":"The Joy of Statistics: A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and Their Applications","description":"The vast majority of statistics books delineate techniques used to analyze collected data. \u003cem\u003eThe Joy of Statistics\u003c\/em\u003e is not one of these books. It consists of a series of 42 short stories, each illustrating how statistical methods applied to data produce insight and solutions to the questions\u003cbr\u003ethe data were collected to answer. Real-life and sometimes artificial data are used to demonstrate the often painless method and magic of statistics. In addition, the text contains brief histories of the evolution of statistical methods and a number of brief biographies of the most famous\u003cbr\u003estatisticians of the 20th century. Sprinkled throughout are statistical jokes, puzzles and traditional stories. The levels of statistical texts span a spectrum, from elementary to introductory to application to theoretical to advanced mathematical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores a variety of statistical applications using graphs and plots, along with detailed and intuitive descriptions, and occasionally a bit of 10th grade mathematics. Examples of a few of the topics included among these short stories are pet ownership, gambling games such as roulette, \u003cbr\u003eblackjack and lotteries, as well as more serious subjects such as comparison of black\/white infant mortality risk, infant birth weight and maternal age, estimation of coronary heart disease risk and racial differences in Hodgkin disease. The statistical descriptions of these topics are in many cases\u003cbr\u003eaccompanied by easy to understand explanations labelled How it Works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Selvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198833444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteve Selvin, \u003cem\u003eProfessor, Department of Biostatistics\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteve Selvin is a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught on the Berkeley campus for more than 40 years. Professor Selvin is also a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health faculty and has taught in the Summer Institute of Biostatistics and Epidemiology for the last fifteen years. He lives in the Berkeley hills with two cats, one dog and a wife who is a well known ceramic artist. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific papers in the area of statistics applied to epidemiological\/health issues with emphasis on birth defects and childhood cancer. In addition he has written 10 books on applied statistical methods. He has received a number of awards for teaching excellence, including the most prestigious award given by the University of California called the Berkeley Citation. His present research concerns the analysis of spatial patterns of childhood cancers in the state of California over the last decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40189592731763,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b416c792-0333-45e8-b1be-bdafe7cde70b.jpg?v=1655816917","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-joy-of-statistics-a-treasury-of-elementary-statistical-tools-and-their-applications-9780198833444","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}