Stats

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I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can anyone
suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the terminology?

Doki wrote:
> I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can anyone
> suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the terminology?

The classic is "How to Lie With Statistics" - published 1954, so may be
out of copyright by now and available on the web somewhere.
Here's the first one I found - I can't vouch for its quality:
http://rapidshare.com/files/110506861/How_To_Lie_With_Statistics_-_Huff_1954.pdf


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There are lies, damn lies, statistics and government statistics.

"Jim Price" <d1version@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fvfgpp$rc2$1@aioe.org...
> Doki wrote:
>> I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can anyone
>> suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the terminology?
>
> The classic is "How to Lie With Statistics" - published 1954, so may be
> out of copyright by now and available on the web somewhere.
> Here's the first one I found - I can't vouch for its quality:
> http://rapidshare.com/files/110506861/How_To_Lie_With_Statistics_-_Huff_1954.pdf

I meant producing my own rather than picking holes in someone else's. Should
have been clearer in my OP.

Doki wrote:
> I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can anyone
> suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the terminology?

Obviously it's a very wide area with many domain applications (and hence
subsets of favorite statistical tools) but you could take a look here:

http://statschoices.open.ac.uk/

Then lookup some of the reference material for the courses.

Cheers,
Graham

Doki wrote:
>
> "Jim Price" <d1version@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fvfgpp$rc2$1@aioe.org...
>> Doki wrote:
>>> I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can
>>> anyone suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the
>>> terminology?
>>
>> The classic is "How to Lie With Statistics" - published 1954, so may
>> be out of copyright by now and available on the web somewhere.
>> Here's the first one I found - I can't vouch for its quality:
>> http://rapidshare.com/files/110506861/How_To_Lie_With_Statistics_-_Huff_1954.pdf
>>
>
> I meant producing my own rather than picking holes in someone else's.
> Should have been clearer in my OP.

Just lie like everyone else, or start here:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-05Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

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JimP
"There is no royal road to mathematics". Normally attributed to Euclid.

Slark wrote:
> Doki wrote:
>> I know quite a few bods on here are fairly up on their stats. Can
>> anyone suggest a web link that'll help me get my head around the
>> terminology?
>
> Obviously it's a very wide area with many domain applications (and hence
> subsets of favorite statistical tools) but you could take a look here:
>
> http://statschoices.open.ac.uk/
>
> Then lookup some of the reference material for the courses.
>
> Cheers,
> Graham

If you don't mind old fashioned paper the classic book is "Facts from
Figures " by Mooney. Google suggests that copies are available for a
pound or so.


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