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Great Courses (2006), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 156 pages
Description
Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical concepts are covered. The emphasis is on the role of statistics in daily life, giving a broad overview of how statistical tools are employed in risk assessment, college admissions, drug testing, fraud investigation, and a host of other applications.
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English
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[01] Describing Data and Inferring Meaning [02] Data and Distributions: Getting the Picture [03] Inference: How Close? How Confident? [04] Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread [05] Models of Distributions: Shapely Families [06] The Bell Curve [07] Correlation and Regression: Moving Together [08] Probability: Workhorse for Inference [09] Samples: The Few, The Chosen [10] Hypothesis Testing: Innocent Until [11] Confidence Intervals: How Close? How Sure? [12] Design of Experiments: Thinking Ahead [13] Law: You're the Jury [14] Democracy and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [15] Election Problems and Engine Failure [16] Sports: Who's Best of All Time? [17] Risk: War and Insurance [18] Real Estate: Accounting for Value [19] Misleading, Distorting, and Lying [20] Social Science: Parsing Personalities [21] Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting [22] Economics: "One" Way to Find Fraud [23] Science: Mendel's Too-Good Peas [24] Statistics Everywhere