Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
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Jonathan Davis
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Charles Wheelan
About this listen
Audie Award Finalist, Business/Educational, 2014
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy". From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis. He clarifies key concepts such as inference, correlation, and regression analysis, reveals how biased or careless parties can manipulate or misrepresent data, and shows us how brilliant and creative researchers are exploiting the valuable data from natural experiments to tackle thorny questions.
You’ll encounter clever Schlitz Beer marketers leveraging basic probability, an International Sausage Festival illuminating the tenets of the central limit theorem, and a head-scratching choice from the famous game show Let’s Make a Deal - and you’ll come away with insights each time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer fun that turned Naked Economics into a best seller, Wheelan defies the odds yet again by bringing another essential, formerly unglamorous discipline to life.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-11-20
Statistics presented in an interesting way!
There are many popularizers for Statistics. This book does not offer anything new. If you have not read/listened to other Statistics popularizers, then you might appreciate this book. I have already read many other statistics popularizers, so I did not find much new material here. Nevertheless, this book reinforced several of my beliefs. The author of the book is a democrat, but he does not exhibit any bias in the political example he brings up.
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- Darshan
- 28-04-21
As basic as statics can get with real life example
It is one of those books you assume you ll struggle to finish considering the subject being monotonous and boring. Wheelan makes it interesting to certain extent gripping as well. Narration is done very well as well.
Good book to people from all branches who recently have gotten into stats
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- Bibhu
- 18-01-20
wonderful book and wonderful performance
one of the best books you can listen to or read. you can blindly go for it if you have an eye for data and how it can be meaningful.
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- Gautam Pal
- 26-03-21
extraordinary book narrated with great enthusiasm
It is an extraordinary book. The book has been
narrated with great enthusiasm. The book helped to provide clarity to an intimidating subject.
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- Anshul
- 09-08-21
Great book for stats
great book for someone's first intro to statistics
greta examples
normal distribution explained quite well
machine learning not included
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- Megha
- 30-07-20
Great content for beginners. Narrated very well.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. The narrator explained the content of the book very well.
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- Majnoo Gawture
- 20-09-20
A sneak peek into the world of Statistics
The book has lot of simple examples without a lot of Mathemau. Well suited for Beginners. This book will make user conversant with concepts, but the user won't be able to use those. Nevertheless a good listen for Beginners.
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- Raj_Hat
- 28-04-20
Probably best narrated maths book...
l loved it, it makes understanding statistics concepts so easy...
Charles has written it with his heart and Jonathan is a skilled narrator...
great job. Thanks audible for this book!
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- Frequent shopper
- 04-03-19
Statistics explained with Stories
One of the most boaring subject made interesting with real world stories and example. Must read for people finding difficulty in learning stats
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- Utsav
- 07-06-20
Covers all basics and puts things into perspective
Overall it is good primer for Product Managers, Data Engineers and government officials. covers all the basics and puts things into real world perspective
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