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What Is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Andrew Vickers


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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. What is a p-value Anyway is the perfect compliment to any introductory statistics textbook and will succeed in demonstrating the everyday importance of statistics to your class.

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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. 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 For all readers interested in statistics.

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  • Title What Is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
  • Author Andrew Vickers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pearson, Boston
  • Date 2009-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780321629302 / 0321629302
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.9 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 17.53 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mathematical statistics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009030057
  • Dewey Decimal Code 519.5

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About the author

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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