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• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Why I hated calculus but love statistics
• 1 What’s the Point?
• 2 Descriptive Statistics: Who was the best baseball player of all time?
• Appendix to Chapter 2
• 3 Deceptive Description: “He’s got a great personality!” and other true but grossly misleading statements
• 4 Correlation: How does Netflix know what movies I like?
• Appendix to Chapter 4
• 5 Basic Probability: Don’t buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer
• 5½ The Monty Hall Problem
• 6 Problems with Probability: How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system
• 7 The Importance of Data: “Garbage in, garbage out”
• 8 The Central Limit Theorem: The Lebron James of statistics
• 9 Inference: Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated
• Appendix to Chapter 9
• 10 Polling: How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error ± 3 percent)
• Appendix to Chapter 10
• 11 Regression Analysis: The miracle elixir
• Appendix to Chapter 11
• 12 Common Regression Mistakes: The mandatory warning label
• 13 Program Evaluation: Will going to Harvard change your life?
• Conclusion: Five questions that statistics can help answer
• Appendix: Statistical software
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• More praise for Naked Statistics
• Also by Charles Wheelan
• Copyright