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O'Reilly Strata Conference
by Allen B. Downey
Think Stats
Think Stats
Preface
Why I Wrote This Book
How I Wrote This Book
Contributor List
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
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How to Contact Us
1. Statistical Thinking for Programmers
Do First Babies Arrive Late?
A Statistical Approach
The National Survey of Family Growth
Tables and Records
Significance
Glossary
2. Descriptive Statistics
Means and Averages
Variance
Distributions
Representing Histograms
Plotting Histograms
Representing PMFs
Plotting PMFs
Outliers
Other Visualizations
Relative Risk
Conditional Probability
Reporting Results
Glossary
3. Cumulative Distribution Functions
The Class Size Paradox
The Limits of PMFs
Percentiles
Cumulative Distribution Functions
Representing CDFs
Back to the Survey Data
Conditional Distributions
Random Numbers
Summary Statistics Revisited
Glossary
4. Continuous Distributions
The Exponential Distribution
The Pareto Distribution
The Normal Distribution
Normal Probability Plot
The Lognormal Distribution
Why Model?
Generating Random Numbers
Glossary
5. Probability
Rules of Probability
Monty Hall
Poincaré
Another Rule of Probability
Binomial Distribution
Streaks and Hot Spots
Bayes’s Theorem
Glossary
6. Operations on Distributions
Skewness
Random Variables
PDFs
Convolution
Why Normal?
Central Limit Theorem
The Distribution Framework
Glossary
7. Hypothesis Testing
Testing a Difference in Means
Choosing a Threshold
Defining the Effect
Interpreting the Result
Cross-Validation
Reporting Bayesian Probabilities
Chi-Square Test
Efficient Resampling
Power
Glossary
8. Estimation
The Estimation Game
Guess the Variance
Understanding Errors
Exponential Distributions
Confidence Intervals
Bayesian Estimation
Implementing Bayesian Estimation
Censored Data
The Locomotive Problem
Glossary
9. Correlation
Standard Scores
Covariance
Correlation
Making Scatterplots in Pyplot
Spearman’s Rank Correlation
Least Squares Fit
Goodness of Fit
Correlation and Causation
Glossary
Index
About the Author
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Copyright
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