BookEric Sowey, Peter Petocz.
Contents:
Part I Introduction
Why is statistics such a fascinating subject?
How statistics differs from mathematics
Statistical literacy- essential in the 21st century
Statistical inquiry on the web
Part II Statistical description
Trustworthy statistics are accurate, meaningful and relevant
Let's hear it for the standard deviation!
Index numbers- time travel for averages
The beguiling ways of bad statistics I
The beguiling ways of bad statistics II
Part III Preliminaries to inference
Puzzles and paradoxes in probability
Some paradoxes of randomness
Hidden risks for gamblers
Models in statistics
The normal distribution: history, computation and curiosities
Part IV Statistical inference
The pillars of applied statistics- estimation
The pillars of applied statistics- hypothesis testing
'Data snooping' and the significance level in multiple testing
Francis Galton and the birth of regression
Experimental design- piercing the veil of random variation
In praise of Bayes
Part V Some statistical byways
Quality in statistics
History of ideas: statistical personalities and the personalities of statisticians
Statistical eponymy
Statistical 'laws'
Statistical artefacts
Part VI Answers
Answers to the chapter questions.