What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
Ad-ison W-esley; 1 edition (November 28, 2009) | ISBN: 0321629302 | 240 pages | PDF | 10 MB
What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.
Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us
For all readers interested in statistics.