The Tao of Statistics: A Path to Understanding (With No Math) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dana K. Keller
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 232636
Media: Paperback
Pages: 168
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1412913144
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9781412913140
Publication Date: August 5, 2005
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Product Description
The Tao of Statistics: A Path to Understanding (With No Math) provides a new approach to statistics in plain English. Unlike other introductions to statistics, this text explains what statistics mean and how they are used, rather than how to calculate them. The book walks readers through basic concepts, as well as some of the most complex statistical models in use. Professionals and college students who want to be informed about statistics but do not want to spend a lot of time learning to how compute them should not be without this volume.
Features and Benefits:
- Covers basic statistics in an accessible fashion without emphasizing computation
- Covers the field more broadly than any other text like it
- Is ideal for readers who do not consider themselves good at math, have little interest in computing statistics, or just want to understand them
- Each concept is presented via impressions from a verse, an illustration, and 300 to 900 words of text.
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an instructive delight for the non-statistician November 3, 2005
B. Fleming (Washington, DC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you use statistics in your daily work, but are not a statistician and are always meaning to read or reread your statistics book from that one course you took or the new statistics book you ordered, but you fall asleep a couple of pages into the first chapter, then this book is for you. If you have an idea that means are not always a good measure of central tendency for a population, but you would be hard pressed to come up with the exact reason, then this is for you. This book covers all the major statistical concepts that most of us non-statisticians use (confidence intervals, correlations, regressions, etc) and makes them all understandable. Believe it or not, this statistics book is FUN to read and you will remember the delightful Haiku and the illustrations which drive each concept home. I recommend this book, ordered my own copy, and now am ordering copies for my staff.
Tao of Statistics October 18, 2005
James H. Crouse
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
An excellent introduction to the ways information from statistics can change the way one looks at the world. Understanding something about probability and base rates, for example, can enlighten how one interprets the presence or absence of individual events. Understanding distributions and sampling can further enlighten. The same could be said about correlations, covatriances, and statistical models. Keller's book covers only the introduction to these ideas, but does it in a nice way, and motivates readrs to continue their journey along the path he describes. A must read for persons wanting to know what statistical knowledge can and cannot do.
This book works... December 29, 2006
Eric S. Williams (Washington, DC USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a young professor who teaches statistics to sociology and nursing majors at a Washington, DC area university. "The Tao of Statistics" was the first book of which I ever received an unsolicited evaluation copy. I am so glad I did. After I made this book required reading grades have risen among the students who actually read it. The most telling incident was when I over heard the captain of one of the athletic teams telling several teammates in the class, "Dude, you gotta read this book. It explains it all." If you are an instructor, require this book. If you are a student get a copy and read it.
Excellent Book, fast , fast shipping... September 16, 2007
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Following the path February 26, 2006
Cynthia T. Weinmann (Bagdad, KY)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Many books have made efforts - more or less successful - to "debunk" the complex topic of statistics. This book avoids condescension through humor and dryness by offering real life examples. At the same time, Dr. Keller's discussions delve deep enough into the subjects to provide a genuine level of understanding for his readers.
And for those with a liking for Haiku, the writing is delightful for its own sake.
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