Cartoon Guide to Statistics
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Cartoon Guide to Statistics
By (Author) Larry Gonick
By (author) Woollcott Smith
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
William Morrow Paperbacks
13th October 1993
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Book design and Bookbinding
Product design
Reference works
Data science and analysis: general
Funding of education and student finance
Teaching skills and techniques
Teaching of a specific subject
Economics
Mathematics
519.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 187mm, Height 235mm, Spine 15mm
324g
Description
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 needThe Cartoon Guide to Statisticsto put you on the road to statistical literacy.
The Cartoon Guide to Statisticscovers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much moreall explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!
This updated version features all new material.
Reviews
"Gonick is so consistently witty and clever that the reader is barely aware of being given a thorough grounding.""--Omni""Gonick is one of a kind.""--Discover"
Author Bio
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. 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, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
