Cartoon Guide to Statistics
$39.98
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 October 1993
Summary
If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on “People’s Court,” or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variable…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062731029 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0062731025 |
| Author: | Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 October 1993 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 187mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Cartoon Guide Series |
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“Gonick is so consistently witty and clever that the reader is barely aware of being given a thorough grounding.”“–Omni”“Gonick is one of a kind.”“–Discover”
About The Author
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
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