About the Book
A simple elucidation of diffuicult concepts of Statistics, this book is a priceless addition to the series.
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 Trials, 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!
About The Author:
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for over
thirty years--he wrote his first guide in 1971: Blood From a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform. He is an award winning cartoonist and is considered the father of cartoon nonfiction. He has been a calculus professor at Harvard, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.