About the Book: The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics
Statistics help us create Internet technologies, develop medicines, win
elections, invest in stocks, predict the weather, and much more. But the methods
that produce important numbers remain beyond many of us. How do we determine the
proper size of a sample? How, exactly, do we calculate standard deviation? And
just what is the central limit theorem? In The Cartoon Introduction to
Statistics, Grady Klein and Alan Dabney cut through the confusion and take us on
a tour of this dynamic subject, helping us stay afloat on the sea of data that
is our increasingly complex world. Separating the