Dancing on the Tails of the Bell Curve

Dancing on the Tails of the Bell Curve

Readings on the Joy and Power of Statistics

by Richard Altschuler

160 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781884092343
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This unique book is designed to motivate new statistics students to want to learn and use statistics. The carefully selected articles and essays give readers role models to identify with who have experienced joy from statistics and major examples of how statistics influence our laws, medications, food supply, interest rates, educational programs, sporting events, mass media, and entitlement programs. Statistics professors will find this “motivational reader” to be an important supplement to classroom textbooks and technical online resources, and professionals who work with data will find that this book motivates them to want to improve their statistical skills.

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