What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew Vickers

What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew Vickers

What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.   KEY TOPICS: Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us   MARKET: For all readers interested in statistics.

Andrew Vickers, PhD, is an Associate Attending Research Methodologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is active in a variety of fields of cancer research, and also conducts original research in statistical methods, particularly with respect to the evaluation of prediction models. Dr. Vickers has been course leader for the biostatistics course at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 2001, and has taught biostatistics to medical students at Cornell Medical School since 2000. Dr. Vickers received a First Class BA in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford.

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ISBN 10	0321629302
Title	What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
Author	Andrew Vickers
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2010-01-11
Number of pages	224
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