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Mathematical statistics.
Analysis of variance.
Probabilities.
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Starbird, Michael.
Statistics.
Mathematical statistics.
Analysis of variance.
Probabilities.
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Meaning from data [videorecording (
DVD
)] : statistics made clear / Michael Starbird.
by
Starbird, Michael.
Teaching Co., c2006.
Call #:
DVD
519
.5
S795m
Subjects
Statistics.
Mathematical statistics.
Analysis of variance.
Probabilities.
Series
Great courses (
DVD
)
Great courses (
DVD
). Science & mathematics. Mathematics.
ISBN:
9781598031461 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. Meaning from data [videorecording (
DVD
)] : statistics made clear
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)] :
Description:
4 videodiscs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 p. ; 21 cm.).
Notes:
"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. Describing data and inferring meaning -- Data and distributions: getting the picture -- Inference: How close? How confident? -- Describing dispersion or measuring spread -- Models of distributions: shapely families -- The bell curve.
Disc 2. Correlation and regression: moving together -- Probability: workhorse for inference -- Samples, the few the chosen -- Hypothesis testing: innocent until -- Confidence intervals: How close? How sure? -- Design of experiments: thinking ahead.
Disc 3. Law: You're the jury -- Democracy and Arrow's Impossibility Theorum -- Election problems and engine failure -- Sports: Who's best of all time? -- Risk: war and insurance -- Real estate: Accounting for value.
Disc 4. Misleading, distorting, and lying -- Social science: Parsing personalities -- Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting -- Economics: 'One' way to find fraud -- Science: Mendel's too-good peas -- Statistics everywhere.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Michael Starbird, University of Texas.
Summary:
These twenty-four half-hour lectures are your initiation to statistics and analzying data correctly.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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