Beyond Basic Statistics —— Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know

----- 超越基本统计：每个数据分析师应该知道的秘诀、技巧与技术

ISBN: 9781118856116 出版年：2015 页码：203 Kristin H Jarman Wiley

Preface ix 1 Introduction: It Seemed Like the Right Thing to Do at the Time 1 2 The Type A Diet: Sampling Strategies to Eliminate Confounding and Reduce Your Waistline 9 3 Conservatives, Liberals, and Other Political Pawns: How to Gain Power and Influence with Sample Size Calculations 31 4 Bunco, Bricks, and Marked Cards: Chi ]Squared Tests and How to Beat a Cheater 47 5 Why It Pays To Be a Stable Master: Sumo Wrestlers and Other Robust Statistics 69 6 Five ]Hour Marriages: Continuous Distributions, Tests for Normality, and Juicy Hollywood Scandals 91 7 Believe It or Don t: Using Outlier Detection to Find the Weirdest of the Weird 109 8 The Battle of the Movie Monsters, Round Two: Ramping Up Hypothesis Tests with Nonparametric Statistics 123 9 Models, Murphy s Law, and Public Humiliation: Regression Rules to Live By 139 Appendix A Critical Values for the Standard Normal Distribution 163 Appendix B Critical Values for the T-Distribution 165 Appendix C Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution 167 Appendix D Critical Values for Grubbs Test 169 Appendix E Critical Values for Wilcoxson signed rank test: small sample sizes 171 Glossary 173 Index 185