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

Title remainder

Statistics made clear

Statement of responsibility

Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird

Instantiates

• Meaning from data : Statistics made clear

Publication

• Chantilly, Virginia, USA, Teaching Company, 2006

Copyright

• ©2006

Note

• Consists of 24 lectures; each is 30 minutes
• "Course no. 1487."
• Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography

Accompanying material

1 course guidebook (vi, 148 pages ; 19 cm).

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148 of guidebook)

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• videodisc
• volume

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• vd
• nc

Carrier MARC source

• rdacarrier
• rdamedia

Color

multicolored

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unknown

Content category

• two-dimensional moving image
• text

Content type code

• tdi
• txt

Content type MARC source

• rdacontent
• rdacontent

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 curve
• Disc 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 ahead
• Disc 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 value
• Disc 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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ocm64190760

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4 3/4 in. +

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other

Extent

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) in 2 containers

Isbn

9781598031461

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• video
• unmediated

Media MARC source

• rdamedia
• rdamedia

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• v
• n

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videodisc

Other control number

9781598031461

Other physical details

sound, color

Publisher number

• 1487
• PD1487
• PD1487-01
• PD1487-02

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u1101137

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sound on medium

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videodisc

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DVD

Video recording format

DVD