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Statistics is Easy!
Statistics is Easy! | Dennis Shasha, Manda Wilson
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Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting idea called resampling. This book explains the basic concepts of resampling, then systematically presents the standard statistical measures along with programs (in the language Python) to calculate them using resampling, and finally illustrates the use of the measures and programs in a case study. The text uses junior high school algebra and many examples to explain the concepts. The ideal reader has mastered at least elementary mathematics, likes to think procedurally, and is comfortable with computers.
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charl08
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Playing around with reading statistics in Sheets...

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MelissaSue81
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MelissaSue81
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thebluestocking Love this!! 💙 5y
marleed Haha. I recently retired and just can‘t bring myself to sit at my old desktop. I‘m considering a new MacBook or an IPad Pro. My son said the IPad. But I told him that he just doesn‘t get how much I miss a spreadsheet! 5y
MelissaSue81 @marleed - so this is actually on google sheets, so you can enter stuff on an iPad, or even a phone. I admit I prefer to do it on a laptop or desktop though. 5y
marleed @MelissaSue81 ohhh. Interesting! 5y
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MelissaSue81
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Gonna Spam Ya'll with my Reading Stats from 2019 now. :) Love these statistics from the BookRiot Reading Tracker

Butterfinger I enjoyed looking at them. 5y
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shaynarae
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I‘m pretty impressed I got through so many books along with adding in other activities to my life this year. However, in 2020, I will not be reading any books written by white men that are over 1000 pages. I‘ve had my fill of those this year.

Amiable I completed one less book this year than last year, but nearly 4,000 more pages. I purposely reached for the bigger books this year, too. 5y
shaynarae @Amiable That‘s incredible! Go you! 5y
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julesG
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Just a few of the 300 books I've read this year. Goodreads hasn't caught up with my last review yet.

Also, the longest book is actually four books.

PurpleyPumpkin Wow, fantastic! Well done!👏🏽🎉👍🏽 5y
squirrelbrain A lovely round number! Don‘t finish another one today.... 🤣 5y
AmyG Omg!!! Amazing. I bow to you. 5y
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ljuliel Teriffic 🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟 5y
TrishB Brilliant 👍🏻🎉🎉 5y
Cupcake12 Wow...that‘s amazing! 👍🏻 5y
CoverToCoverGirl Wowsers! A great year! 🎉❤️ 5y
Suet624 A really great year indeed. 5y
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squirrelbrain
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My reading year...

My target was 150 books, plus the 50 Penguin Moderns at 1 per week, so I‘m pleased with 190 books.

Fairly consistent across the months, with 5 months where I read 17 books. October was a busy month so only 12 books then...

I couldn‘t fit on the TBR figures - 177 unread books on the TBR shelf at the beginning of the year, and only 40 read in the year.... oops!

kspenmoll Congrats on your year!!!!🎊🙌🏻🥰 5y
Ash.on.the.line Great reading year! 🥳 5y
TrishB Great stats 👍🏻 I have two of your top ten ready for next year. 5y
Caroline2 Great stats! Well done you! 👍 5y
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Sweettartlaura
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#maystats

42 reads?!?!? That might be my record 😮❤️ 📚

My favorite thing is how diverse my reading is these days. I mean, guys... I read a PLAY this month! Haven‘t even considered that since high school!

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BarbaraJean
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Lazy post-it note rendering of my February reading stats. 😊 Some good variety in genres read, but holy crap—I need to buckle down on that TBR. Except for those three library books just sitting here... and the eBook hold that just came in for me... 😬

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Great work! 📖💖 6y
rockpools It‘s a very effective post-it! And the tbr - yup! 6y
wordzie 👍👏 6y
BarbaraJean @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @wordzie Thank you! @RachelO The never-ending battle, right?! 😩😂 (edited) 6y
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Kristy_K
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March Stats.
I had so little time to read this month, I‘m surprised my numbers are what they are. I felt very unsatisfied with March‘s books so here‘s hoping to a better April!

#stats #march

Sue 15 books is awesome - that‘s almost one every 2 days. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 7y
Andrew65 🙌🙌🙌 7y
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CocoReads
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I don't really find statistics easy. But here's my January stats. It was my best reading month in years.

RobinW Very Impressive! 8y
CocoReads @RobinW Thanks, hoping I can keep a good pace the rest of the year although I'm sure this will probably be my best month. 8y
BibliophileMomma Awesome! 🙌🏼 8y
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Lola
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I'm pretty happy with my year-end stats.Of my 100 books, I was almost evenly split between men and women authors-49/51; 5 authors who identify as LGBTQ+; 22 authors of color-of those 11 men and 12 women. I'm sure the @bookriot #readharder challenge and the #seasonalreadingchallenge along with #Botns bingo helped but most of my choices just happened naturally as those challenges were used primarily as a way to direct my choices from my existing TBR

AThousandLives87 What's the seasonal reading challenge? 8y
Lola It's a Goodreads group I joined to help me decide what to read next-with so many choices, I often find myself unable to choose! Here are the deets: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/21757-the-seasonal-reading-challenge 8y
Lola @AThousandLives87 I never finish-you have to read around 80 books in a 3 month season to do so. Quite a few people do, but that won't ever be me 😆I still have fun tho' and this season won the opportunity to create one of the tasks. 8y
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AThousandLives87 Wow. I took a look and it seems pretty intense! I couldn't do it. 8y
Lola @AThousandLives87 It was definitely overwhelming at first. Then it grabbed me and I can't stop playing. 😂I think it appeals to my love of puzzles-I enjoy finding books that I already wanted to read to fit the tasks. 8y
BookishMarginalia @AThousandLives87 I looked at it and I couldn't do it either. Just reading the tasks gave me a headache. Way too involved and convoluted for me! @lola I admire your commitment 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼 8y
Megabooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎊🎊 8y
Lola @BookishMarginalia Says the Organizer Extraordinaire of our fantastic @Litsy gift exchanges and creator/organizer of the #LitsyAtoZchallenge ?I will confess that the challenge requires (for me) notebooks and a separate "secret" GR group for keeping track of posts and tasks-let me tell you, it can be a great distraction from RL ?? 8y
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