DVD
Meaning from data [videorecording] : statistics made clear / Michael Starbird.
This film is an introduction to a vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical concepts are covered. The emphasis is on the role of statistics in daily life, giving a broad overview of how statistical tools are employed in risk assessment, college admissions, drug testing, fraud investigation, and a host of other applications.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598031465 (set)
- ISBN: 9781598031461 (set)
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 p. ; 19 cm.)
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Course no. 1487." Course guidebook includes scope, outline and readings for each lecture, timeline and biographical notes. Consists of 24 lectures; each is 30 minutes. "Science & Mathematics"--Container. Special features: Lecture chapters; Professor biography. Each of the two parts contains 1 guidebook and 2 videodiscs with six lectures each, for a total of 24 lectures, 30 min. each. Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | disc 1. Describing data and inferring meaning ; Data and distributions: getting the picture ; Inference: how close? How confident? ; Describing dispersion or measuring spread ; Models of distributions: shapely families ; The bell curve -- disc 2. Correlation and regression: moving together ; Probability: workhorse for inference ; Samples: the few, the chosen ; Hypothesis testing: innocent until ; Confidence intervals: how close? How sure? ; Design of experiments: thinking ahead -- disc 3. Law: you're the jury ; Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem ; Election problems and engine failure ; Sports: who's best of all time? ; Risk: war and insurance ; Real estate: accounting for value -- disc 4. Misleading, distorting, and lying ; Social science: parsing personalities ; Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting ; Economics: "one" way to find fraud ; Science: Mendel's too-good peas ; Statistics everywhere. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin. |
| System Details Note: | DVD. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Doantion (copy 2 only) ; 2012/03. |
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Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at Vancouver Island University Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIU Library - Cowichan Campus | QA 276.18 S737 2006 GUIDE (Text) | M011685581 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| VIU Library - Cowichan Campus | QA 276.18 S737 2006 PT.1 (Text) | M011685573 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| VIU Library - Cowichan Campus | QA 276.18 S737 2006 PT.2 (Text) | M011685590 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | QA 276.18 S737 2006 PT.1 (Text) | M011323949 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | QA 276.18 S737 2006 PT.2 (Text) | M011323957 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |
