Bibliograph

Meaning from data, statistics made clear, Michael Starbird, Part 2

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Label

Meaning from data, statistics made clear, Michael Starbird, Part 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Meaning from data

Oclc number

64770526

Responsibility statement

Michael Starbird

Runtime

360

Series statement

The great courses

Sub title

statistics made clear

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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 -- 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

Technique

live action

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