Ebook: Statistical Snacks

Welcome to the wondrous world of statistics! This informal book will pick you up at the very beginning and guide you through the core concepts of mathematical statistics. It carefully explains the basic ideas and shows you how to apply them to a vast number of diverse situations. If you're looking for a dry textbook, you are in the wrong place. This book is all about understanding and applying and applying and applying ...

After closely examining the multiplication rule and its applications, including the unjustly dreaded at-least-problems, it goes on to show how the binomial distribution works, what astonishing things you can do with the expected value, why the Poisson distribution is so great, how to solve statistical problems using geometry and what all the fuss with the Bayes' theorem is about. As a plus, the final chapter provides a quick peek into further statistical concepts such as Markov chains, standard deviation and standard error, Chi-Square and cellular automatons.

Besides demonstrating how the concepts work, the many bits of applications, the statistical snacks, cover a wide and diverse range of topics: monkeys on a typewriter, multiple choice tests, missile accuracy, collecting stickers, fair games, quantitative linguistics, space probe communication, soccer, tired colleagues, drunk drivers, immigrants and crime, pirates and global warming and many more.