Statistics category: 3298 books
Tales from the Minnesota Twins Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Twins Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Imagine a story in which a young man grows up so close to a major-league ballpark that he can see the stadium lights from his front yard. He pretends to be the team’s star during neighborhood ball games and fantasizes about one day playing for his hometown team. Stop imagining. Kent Hrbek made those...
by Michele M. Burlew
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book provides beginners with a thorough foundation in SAS macro programming. The macro facility is a popular part of SAS. Macro programming is a required skill for many SAS programming jobs, and the SAS Advanced Programming Certification Exam tests macro processing concepts. Whether you're looking...
Dataclysm
Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
**A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making**
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who...
by Anany Levitin, Maria Levitin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
While many think of algorithms as specific to computer science, at its core algorithmic thinking is defined by the use of analytical logic to solve problems. This logic extends far beyond the realm of computer science and into the wide and entertaining world of puzzles. In Algorithmic Puzzles, Anany...
R for Data Science
Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience,...
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates
**“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness...
by Liliana López-Kleine
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 30, 2017
El libro recorre los temas de estadística básica necesarios para que los profesionales de las áreas biológicas, agrícolas, de salud y afines adquieran los conocimientos y herramientas necesarios para un apropiado análisis de datos. En los primeros capítulos se exponen y afianzan conceptos básicos...
Scorecasting
The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played,...
by Deborah J. Rumsey
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Esperanza de vida, tasa de siniestralidad, tablas, promedios… cada día recibimos centenares de datos estadísticos, a menudo sin tener las herramientas suficientes para analizarlos. El objetivo de este libro es ayudar al lector a desarrollar y fortalecer sus habilidades de análisis para que pueda...
A Mathematician at the Ballpark
Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In A Mathematician at the Ballpark, professor Ken Ross reveals the math behind the stats. This lively and accessible book shows baseball fans how to harness the power of made predictions and better understand the game. Using real-world examples from historical and modern-day teams, Ross shows:
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The Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
New insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
Samuel...
The End of Average
How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.
The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like...
Watching Baseball Smarter
A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
This smart and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner.
What is the...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the...