Bibliograph

Meaning from data, Statistics made clear, Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird

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Meaning from data, Statistics made clear, Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148 of guidebook)

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videorecording

Main title

Meaning from data

Oclc number

64190760

Responsibility statement

Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird

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Series statement

Great courses, Science & mathematics

Sub title

Statistics made clear

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Disc 1: Part 1. Lecture 1. Describing data and inferring meaning -- Lecture 2. Data and distributions: getting the picture -- Lecture 3. Inference: how close? How confident? -- Lecture 4. Describing dispersion or measuring spread -- Lecture 5. Models of distributions: shapely families -- Lecture 6. The bell curveDisc 2: Part 1. Lecture 7. Correlation and regression: moving together -- Lecture 8. Probability: workhorse for inference -- Lecture 9. Samples: the few, the chosen -- Lecture 10. Hypothesis testing: innocent until -- Lecture 11. Confidence intervals: how close? How sure? -- Lecture 12. Design of experiments: thinking aheadDisc 3: Part 2. Lecture 13. Law: you're the jury -- Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem -- Lecture 15. Election problems and engine failure -- Lecture 16. Sports: who's best of all time? -- Lecture 17. Risk: war and insurance -- Lecture 18. Real estate: accounting for valueDisc 4: Part 2. Lecture 19. Misleading, distorting, and lying -- Lecture 20. Social science: parsing personalities -- Lecture 21. Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting -- Lecture 22. Economics: "one" way to find fraud -- Lecture 23. Science: Mendel's too-good peas -- Lecture 24. Statistics everywhere

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live action

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Statistics made clear

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