Meaning from data: Statistics Made Clear With Michael Starbird

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Meaning from data: Statistics Made Clear With Michael Starbird

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Genre: Statistics

 

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? Which hospital has the best outcome for a given procedure? When is it a good idea to buy a product's extended warranty? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, as do a surprising number of other mysteries, including: Is the "hot hand" among sports players real? How can you tell if Shakespeare is the probable author of a newly discovered poem? What is a guilt-free way to get someone to admit to cheating? And, how does a tax assessor calculate the market value of a house?

 

Lectures:

1. Describing Data and Inferring Meaning

2. Data and Distributions-Getting the Picture

3. Inference-How Close? How Confident?

4. Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread

5. Models of Distributions-Shapely Families

6. The Bell Curve

7. Correlation and Regression-Moving Together

8. Probability-Workhorse for Inference

9. Samples-The Few, The Chosen

10. Hypothesis Testing-Innocent Until

11. Confidence Intervals-How Close? How Sure?

12. Design of Experiments-Thinking Ahead

13. Law-You're the Jury

14. Democracy and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

15. Election Problems and Engine Failure

16. Sports-Who's Best of All Time?

17. Risk-War and Insurance

18. Real Estate-Accounting for Value

19. Misleading, Distorting, and Lying

20. Social Science-Parsing Personalities

21. Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting

22. Economics-"One" Way to Find Fraud

23. Science-Mendel's Too-Good Peas

24. Statistics Everywhere

 

 

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