The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Larry Gonick; Woollcott Smith

ISBN 10: 0062731025 / ISBN 13: 9780062731029

Published by HarperPerennial (edition 1), 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
• Publisher: HarperPerennial (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062731025
• ISBN 13: 9780062731029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

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 Trials, 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!

About the Author

LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His Cartoon Guide series has enjoyed immense success. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He was staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.

Larry Gonick's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.