Head First Statistics

Dawn Griffiths began her career as a mathematician at a prestigious UK institution. She received a First-Class Honours degree in Mathematics and was awarded a university scholarship to pursue a PhD in differential equations of extremely unusual breeds. She left academics after realizing that people would cease talking to her at gatherings, and instead pursued a job in software development. She currently juggles IT consulting, writing, and mathematics.

Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a statistics book that made histograms, probability distributions, and chi square analysis as fun as going to the dentist? Head First Statistics brings statistics to life through puzzles, stories, quizzes, visual aids, and real-world applications.

Whether you're a student, a professional, or just curious about statistical analysis, Head First's brain-friendly methodology will help you learn fundamental concepts and put them to use. Learn how to visually portray data with charts and graphs; understand the difference between taking the average with mean, median, and mode and why it matters; calculate probability and expectation; and much more.

Head First Statistics is appropriate for high school and college statistics students, and it meets the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics Exam standards. You'll learn how to:

• Examine the entire scope of first-year statistics topics.
• Take on difficult statistical ideas with Head First's dynamic, graphically rich approach, which has been shown to enhance learning and help you retain knowledge.
• Investigate real-world events ranging from casino gambling to prescription drug testing in order to put statistical ideas into context.
• Learn how to calculate chances, measure spread, and grasp the normal, binomial, geometric, and Poisson distributions.
• Perform sampling, correlation and regression analysis, hypothesis testing, chi square analysis, and other tasks.

You'll not only have learned statistics before you realize it, but you'll also understand how they work in practice. Head First Statistics can help you pass your statistics course while also providing you with a solid understanding of the subject that you may utilize throughout your life.

Author: Dawn Griffiths

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596527586

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