Statistics Is Easy! 2nd Edition

by Manda Wilson and Dennis Shasha

Book Overview

Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031012720
• ISBN13: 9783031012723
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.3"