Statistics A Guide to the Unknown,9780534372828

Statistics A Guide to the Unknown

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780534372828
ISBN10: 0534372821
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-28
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

STATISTICS: A GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN offers a collection of intriguing essays that describe the important applications of statistics and probability. Instead of teaching methods, the essays illustrate past accomplishments and current uses of statistics and probability. Examples of surveys, questionnaires, experiments, and observational studies help you better understand the importance of and the influence of statistics.

Table of Contents

Essays Classified by Data Source vi
Essays Classified by Statistical Method ix
Preface xv
Introduction: Learning from Data xvii
David S. Moore
Part One Public Policy and Social Science
1(102)
Statistics in the Courtroom: United States v. Kristen Gilbert
3(16)
George Cobb
Stephen Gehlbach
The Anatomy of a Preelection Poll
19(16)
Edward C. Ratledge
Counting and Apportionment: Foundations of America's Democracy
35(34)
Tommy Wright
George Cobb
Evaluating School Choice Programs
69(20)
Jennifer Hill
Designing National Health Care Surveys to Inform Health Policy
89(14)
Steven B. Cohen
Trena M. Ezzati-Rice
Part Two Science and Technology
103(92)
Monitoring Tiger Prey Abundance in the Russian Far East
105(14)
Ken Gerow
Dale Miquelle
V. V. Aramilev
Predicting the Africanized Bee Invasion
119(16)
James H. Matis
Thomas R. Kiffe
Statistics and the War on Spam
135(14)
David Madigan
Should You Measure the Radon Concentration in Your Home?
149(22)
Phillip N. Price
Andrew Gelman
Statistical Weather Forecasting
171(12)
Daniel S. Wilks
Space Debris: Yet Another Environmental Problem
183(12)
David R. Brillinger
Part Three Biology and Medicine
195(96)
Modeling an Outbreak of Anthrax
197(14)
Ron Brookmeyer
The Last Frontier: Understanding the Human Mind
211(16)
William F. Eddy
Margaret L. Smykla
Leveraging Chance in HIV Research
227(16)
Charles M. Heilig
Elizabeth G. Hill
John M. Karon
Statistical Genetics: Associating Genotypic Differences with Measurable Outcomes
243(12)
Rongling Wu
George Casella
DNA Fingerprinting
255(16)
Bruce S. Weir
How Many Genes? Mapping Mouse Traits
271(20)
Melanie Bahlo
Terry Speed
Part Four Business and Industry
291(100)
To Catch a Thief: Detecting Cell Phone Fraud
293(14)
Diane Lambert
Jose C. Pinheiro
Reducing Junk Mail Using Data Mining Techniques
307(16)
Richard D. De Veaux
Herb Edelstein
Improving the Accuracy of a Newspaper: A Six Sigma Case Study of Business Process Improvement
323(16)
Ronald D. Snee
Assuring Product Reliability and Safety
339(20)
Necip Doganaksoy
Gerald J. Hahn
William Q. Meeker
Randomness in the Stock Market
359(14)
Richard J. Cleary
Norean Radke Sharpe
Advertising as an Engineering Science
373(18)
William Kahn
Leonard Roseman
Part Five Hobbies and Recreation
391(34)
Baseball Decision Making by the Numbers
393(14)
Hal Stern
Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wines
407(18)
Orley Ashenfelter
Index 425

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