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Meaning from data [videorecording] : Statistics made clear / by Starbird, Michael,professor.; Leven, Jon,director.; Reay, Alisha,editor.; Rodriguez, Sal,director.; Starbird, Michael,professor.; Teaching Company,producer,publisher.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148 of guidebook).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.Producer, Alisha Reay; academic content supervisor, Ann Waigand; directors, Jon Leven, Sal Rodriguez; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois, Jack Dierkin, Jim Allen; editor, Alisha Reay.Lecturer: Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin.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.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Filmed lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Confidence intervals.; Distribution (Probability theory); Experimental design.; Mathematical statistics.; Sampling (Statistics); Statistical hypothesis testing.; Statistics; Statistics; Data Interpretation, Statistical.; Probability.; Statistics as Topic; Statistics as Topic;
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The CIA world factbook/ by United States.Central Intelligence Agency.(CARDINAL)145516;
Provides information on such topics as politics, military expenditures, and economics, and shares comprehensive, country-by-country statistical and rate information.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Geography; World politics; Political science; Political statistics;
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The CIA world factbook 2011 / by United States.Central Intelligence Agency.(CARDINAL)145516;
Provides information on such topics as politics, military expenditures, and economics, and shares comprehensive, country-by-country statistical and rate information.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Geography; Political science; Political statistics; World politics;
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The CIA world factbook 2020-2021 : Central Intelligence Agency. by United States.Central Intelligence Agency,author.(CARDINAL)145516;
Provides information on such topics as politics, military expenditures, and economics, and shares comprehensive, country-by-country statistical and rate information.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Geography; World politics; Political science; Political statistics;
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The CIA world factbook 2023-2024 / by United States.Central Intelligence Agency.; United States.Central Intelligence Agency.;
Provides information on such topics as politics, military expenditures, and economics, and shares comprehensive, country-by-country statistical and rate information.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Geography; World politics; Political science; Gazetteers.;
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100% unofficial Fortnite pro guide.
Offers a guide for playing "Fortnite Battle Royale" for any level of player, covering such topics as gameplay basics, item shops, weapons statistics, combat strategies, and building tips.1070L
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Fortnite Battle Royale (Game); Fortnite Battle Royale (Game); Video games; Video games;
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100% unofficial Fortnite essential guide. by becker&mayer! books (Firm)(CARDINAL)795122;
Offers a guide for playing "Fortnite Battle Royale" for any level of player, covering such topics as gameplay basics, item shops, weapons statistics, combat strategies, and building tips.1000L
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Video games.; Fortnite Battle Royale (Game); Video games; Imaginary places;
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The everything kids' baseball book : from baseball history to player stats--with lots of homerun fun in between! / by Jacobs, Greg,1973-(CARDINAL)610453; Dolber, Kurt,illustrator.(CARDINAL)411308;
Includes bibliographical references (page 160), filmography (page 161), and index.Provides information on such topics as baseball skills, the history of the sport, notable players, the Hall of Fame, baseball fields, the World Series, statistics and records, scorekeeping, and baseball cards.
Subjects: Baseball;
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Statistics / by Donnelly, Robert A.,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)545340; Abdel-Raouf, Fatma,author.(CARDINAL)627064;
The basics -- Probability topics -- Inferential statistics.Statistics is a class that is required in many college majors, and it's an increasingly popular Advanced Placement high school course. In addition to math and technical students, many business and liberal arts students are required to take it as a fundamental component of their majors. A knowledge of statistical interpretation is vital for many careers. Idiot's Guides: Statistics explains the fundamental tenets in language anyone can understand.
Subjects: Statistics.; Instructional and educational works.;
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Health, United States. by National Center for Health Services Research.; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.);
Volumes for 1978- called 3rd-Presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, patient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, and other health topics.Mode of access: Internet from the NCHS web site. Addresses as of 3/24/09: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm (current issue) and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/2010/2010.htm (archived issues); current access is available via PURLs.Volumes for 1976/77-1981 issued by: the National Center for Health Services Research; v. for 1975-1981 prepared by: the National Center for Health Statistics with the National Center for Health Services Research; 1982- by: National Center for Health Statistics.Information in: Health, United States also issued in several other publications or other versions.2019 (CDC, viewed Dec. 28, 2023).
Subjects: Periodicals.; Statistics.; Health facilities; Medical care; Medical economics; Medical personnel;
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