"Employing an irresistible cast of dragon-riding Vikings, lizard-throwing giants, and feuding aliens, the renowned illustrator Grady Klein and the award-winning statistician Alan Dabney teach you how to collect reliable data, make confident statements based on limited information, and judge the usefulness of polls and the other numbers that youre bombarded with every day. If you want to go beyond the basics, they've created the ultimate resource: "The Math Cave,"(3y (Bwhere they reveal the more advanced formulas and concepts"--Provided by publisher.

2015-01

Introduction : they're everywhere... -- Gathering statistics. Numbers ; Random raw data ; Sorting ; Detective work ; Monster mistakes ; From samples to populations -- Hunting parameters. The central limit theorem ; Probabilities ; Inference ; Confidence ; They hate us ; Hypothesis testing ; Smackdown ; Flying pigs, drooling aliens, and firecrackers -- Conclusion: thinking like a statistician -- Appendix: the math cave.