Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9780062731029
ISBN: 0062731025
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 230
Publication Date: February 25, 1994
Publisher: Collins
Release Date: July 14, 1993
Sales Rank: 1575
Studio: Collins

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.

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 Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!




Rating: - Advanced Math
I cannot recommend a book more highly than this!
To overcome the boring, confusing instruction you received in college or high school about statistics you NEED this book.
Never has math been so easy.
Written with humor and the "picture is worth a thousand words" style of cartoon books, you'll get the message.
And remember 5 out of 4 people have trouble with statistics.

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Rating: - Self-study? Try looking elsewhere
Cartoons definitely make the subject of statistics seem less-intimidating. I bought this book for self-study and found it difficult to follow. Though the cartoons made me smile at times, I was unhappy with the lack of material substance. For instance, equations and topics are thrown out there with little explanation on how they were derived. On multiple occasions, I looked for supporting information that wasn't there. Ultimately, I cannot recommend Cartoon Guide to Statistics. I am, however, finding ... Read More

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Rating: - the cartoon guide to statistics
Not as easy to understand as I thought it would be based on the title.

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Rating: - statistics made simple through cartoons
I wrote a short review of this book previously for Amazon and my opinions have not changed very much. However, Gonick deserves credit for coauthoring his cartoon books with experts in the field. This way he avoids mistakes and brings out the important messages that, in the case of this book, a statistician would want to teach his students.
Recently, I used the cartoons on p-values to help another statistician with a presentation on p-values for an audience of medical researchers. I found the relevant ... Read More

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Rating: - excellent.
this is great as a refresher and a road map of what to study in-depth.

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