Why I hated calculus but love statistics --
What's the point? --
Descriptive statistics : Who was the best baseball player of all time? --
Deceptive description : "He's got a great personality!" and other true but grossly misleading statements --
Correlation : How does Netflix know what movies I like? --
Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer --
The Monty Hall problem --
Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system --
The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" --
The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics --
Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated --
Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) --
Regression analysis : The miracle elixir --
Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label --
Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? --
Conclusion : Five questions that statistics can help answer --
Appendix : Statistical software.
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