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Series
National Archives microfilm publications volume microcopy no. T-625
Publisher
[National Archives and Records Administration]
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school--we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling,...
Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A compendium of facts and statistics, ranging from the Gaza and Ukraine wars to housing costs and the 2024 Summer Olympics, in a book that provides information for all the countries in the world and includes the top 10 news stories of the year.
Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The World Almanac is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2024 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2023 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
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Series
Language
English
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"Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves...
Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The World Almanac is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2023 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2022 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Explores the role of luck, specifically the concept of "regression to the mean, " in everyday life, exploring how failures to understand chance and random variations influence choices and perceptions of truth.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often "the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us." If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Stymied by statistics? Fear not! In easy-to-understand terms, this guide shows you how to make sense of statistics. From collecting, graphing, and critiquing data to calculating confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, you'll have everything you need to analyze data with confidence. In no time, you'll be deciphering binomial, normal, t-, and sampling distributions; tackling regression and two-way tables; and much more.--COVER.
Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The World Almanac® is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2022 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2021 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How do you pick football's GOATs? Is Tom Brady the greatest quarterback? Is Alan Page the greatest defensive tackle? Who's the all-around champ? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of football and see if you agree that they're the greatest of all time"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to...
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Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Statistics Essentials For Dummies (9781119590309) was previously published as Statistics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618394). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.
Statistics Essentials For Dummies not only provides students enrolled in Statistics I with an excellent high-level overview
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Series
House document volume 93rd Congress, 1st session, no. 78
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
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