What is a P-value Anyway?: 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics — Andrew Vickers (2010)

Book Description

What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day. Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us For all readers interested in statistics.

Book Details

• Author: Andrew Vickers
• Publisher: Pearson
• Published Date: 2010
• Published Year: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780321629302