statistics

"Over 50 million students attend public schools in the US! What do you know about who they are and how we pay for these schools? We can use data to answer these questions and more"--From the publisher's web site.

A guide to preparing for the Advanced Placement statistics exam, featuring test-taking tips, subject reviews, practice questions, and full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.

A guide to preparing for the Advanced Placement statistics exam, featuring test-taking tips, subject reviews, practice questions, and full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.

"This book argues that Northern disputes over public debt, greenbacks, and tariffs, as well as national economic consequences of the Civil War, undermined Reconstruction as much as Southern race relations and constitutional issues"--Provided by publisher.

What does true plus/minus have to do with hockey greatness? More than you think. In this fun and smart look at basketball, you will discover stories and uncover facts that will help you better understand and enjoy every pass, dribble, and shot all the more.

Ranks the top 50 baseball players.

Shows how to apply statistical reasoning to real-world problems. This isn't simply memorizing formulas or using the tools in a spreadsheet: he emphasizes the importance of clarifying questions, assumptions, and expectations, and--more importantly--knowing how to responsibly interpret the results the software generates.

Compilation of current events, maps and photos of the countries, religions, languages of the world.

"We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: cast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. In 'Figuring Out the Past,' . . . dive[s] in to the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past, drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log every data point that can be gathered for every society that has ever existed. This book does more than tell the story of humanity: it shows you the big picture, by the numbers"--OCLC.