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Meaning from data : Statistics made clear

Title

Meaning from data : Statistics made clear / Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird.

Publication

Chantilly, Virginia, USA : Teaching Company, [2006]
©2006

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Description

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) in 2 containers : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

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? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical concepts are covered. The emphasis is on the role of statistics in daily life, giving a broad overview of how statistical tools are employed in risk assessment, college admissions, drug testing, fraud investigation, and a host of other applications.

Series Statement

Great courses, Science & mathematics

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Mathematics.

Alternative Title

Statistics made clear

Subject

Genre/Form

Educational films.
Lecture
lectures.
Lectures
Educational films
Instructional films
Nonfiction films
Lectures.
Nonfiction films.
Films éducatifs.
Conférences.
Films autres que de fiction.

Note

Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs and each videodisc consists of six lectures. Each course guidebook covers the 12 lectures contained in 2 videodiscs in one part.
Course No. 1487.
"Science & Mathematics"--Container.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148 of guidebook).

Credits (note)

Producer, Alisha Reay; academic content supervisor, Ann Waigand; directors, Jon Leven, Sal Rodriguez; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois, Jack Dierkin, Jim Allen; editor, Alisha Reay.

System Details (note)

DVD.

Contents

Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Describing Data and Inferring Meaning -- Lecture 2. Data and Distributions : Getting the Picture -- Lecture 3. Inference : How Close? How Confident? -- Lecture 4. Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread -- Lecture 5. Models of Distributions : Shapely Families -- Lecture 6. The Bell Curve -- Lecture 7. Correlation and Regression : Moving Together -- Lecture 8. Probability : Workhorse for Inference -- Lecture 9. Samples : the Few, the Chosen -- Lecture 10. Hypothesis Testing : Innocent Until -- Lecture 11. Confidence Intervals : How Close? How Sure? -- Lecture 12. Design of Experiments : Thinking Ahead -- Pt. 2. Lecture 13. Law : You're the Jury -- Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem -- Lecture 15. Election Problems and Engine Failure -- Lecture 16. Sports : Who's Best of All Time? -- Lecture 17. Risk : War and Insurance -- Lecture 18. Real Estate : Accounting for Value -- Lecture 19. Misleading, Distorting, and Lying -- Lecture 20. Social Science : Parsing Personalities -- Lecture 21. Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting -- Lecture 22. Economics : "One" Way to Find Fraud -- Lecture 23. Science : Mendel's Too-Good Peas -- Lecture 24. Statistics Everywhere.

ISBN

1598031465
9781598031461

OCLC

ocm64190760
64190760
SCSB-1475483

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library