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Gonick, Larry

The cartoon guide to statistics / Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith ; [illustrations by Larry Gonick] - 1st Collins ed - 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First published in 1993 by HarperResource

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index

What is statistics? -- Data description -- Probability -- Random variables -- A tale of two distributions -- Sampling -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Comparing two populations -- Experimental design -- Regression -- Conclusion

"The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling, and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trials, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more- all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations."-- (page 4) of cover

ISBN: 0062731025 9780062731029

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Statistics--Caricatures and cartoons
Sampling (Statistics)--Caricatures and cartoons
Probabilities--Caricatures and cartoons
Random variables--Caricatures and cartoons
Economics--Caricatures and cartoons

LC Class. No.: QA276.12 / .G67 2005