Cartoon Guide to Statistics

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Authors: Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 230
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0062731025
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9780062731029
ASIN: 0062731025

Publication Date: February 25, 1994
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Condition: The text is clean with some moderate exterior wear.

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If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!

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2 out of 5 stars

Self-study? Try looking elsewhere September 2, 2008
Cartoons definitely make the subject of statistics seem less-intimidating. I bought this book for self-study and found it difficult to follow. Though the cartoons made me smile at times, I was unhappy with the lack of material substance. For instance, equations and topics are thrown out there with little explanation on how they were derived. On multiple occasions, I looked for supporting information that wasn't there. Ultimately, I cannot recommend Cartoon Guide to Statistics. I am, however, finding success with a more expensive book, take a look: Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

3 out of 5 stars

the cartoon guide to statistics August 19, 2008
Not as easy to understand as I thought it would be based on the title.

4 out of 5 stars

statistics made simple through cartoons January 24, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

I wrote a short review of this book previously for Amazon and my opinions have not changed very much. However, Gonick deserves credit for coauthoring his cartoon books with experts in the field. This way he avoids mistakes and brings out the important messages that, in the case of this book, a statistician would want to teach his students.
Recently, I used the cartoons on p-values to help another statistician with a presentation on p-values for an audience of medical researchers. I found the relevant cartoons to be humorous and very instructive.

Also, I discovered that in addition to the standard topics of estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, correlation and analysis of variance, Chapter 12, simply titled "Conclusion" has a brief description of many advanced topics, particularly in multivariate analysis.

Multivariate topics include Chernoff faces, cluster analysis, factor analysis and discriminant analysis. Other advanced topics mentioned are random walks, time series analysis, image analysis and even resampling (bootstrap, jackknife and randomization).

Each is described with a single cartoon. This reminds me to again warn that these cartoons alone cannot do justice to the various topics being taught. However, careful selection and placement into the context of a course can bring home important points to students better than just conventional teaching methods. I wouldn't hesitate to use this material to supplement and liven up an introductory statistics course.

The bibliography at the end provides a number of very fine introductory texts and other topics and software that could interest the general public (also done in the cartoon fashion of Gonick).

5 out of 5 stars

excellent. October 30, 2007
this is great as a refresher and a road map of what to study in-depth.

5 out of 5 stars

Cool August 29, 2007
This book is so cool! It makes the topic clear and fun at the same time.

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