Think Stats (Full Release)

Preface
        What’s New?
        Using the Code
        Conventions Used in This Book
        O’Reilly Online Learning
        How to Contact Us
        Acknowledgments
    1. Exploratory Data Analysis
        Evidence
        The National Survey of Family Growth
        Reading the Data
        Validation
        Transformation
        Summary Statistics
        Interpretation
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 1.1
            Exercise 1.2
            Exercise 1.3
    2. Distributions
        Frequency Tables
        NSFG Distributions
        Outliers
        First Babies
        Effect Size
        Reporting Results
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 2.1
            Exercise 2.2
            Exercise 2.3
    3. Probability Mass Functions
        PMFs
        Summarizing a PMF
        The Class Size Paradox
        NSFG Data
        Other Visualizations
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 3.1
            Exercise 3.2
            Exercise 3.3
    4. Cumulative Distribution Functions
        Percentiles and Percentile Ranks
        CDFs
        Comparing CDFs
        Percentile-Based Statistics
        Random Numbers
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 4.1
            Exercise 4.2
            Exercise 4.3
            Exercise 4.4
            Exercise 4.5
    5. Modeling Distributions
        The Binomial Distribution
        The Poisson Distribution
        The Exponential Distribution
        The Normal Distribution
        The Lognormal Distribution
        Why Model?
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 5.1
            Exercise 5.2
            Exercise 5.3
    6. Probability Density Functions
        Comparing Distributions
        Probability Density
        The Exponential PDF
        Comparing PMFs and PDFs
        Kernel Density Estimation
        The Distribution Framework
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 6.1
            Exercise 6.2
    7. Relationships Between Variables
        Scatter Plots
        Decile Plots
        Correlation
        Strength of Correlation
        Rank Correlation
        Correlation and Causation
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 7.1
            Exercise 7.2
            Exercise 7.3
            Exercise 7.4
            Exercise 7.5
    8. Estimation
        Weighing Penguins
        Robustness
        Estimating Variance
        Sampling Distributions
        Standard Error
        Confidence Intervals
        Sources of Error
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 8.1
            Exercise 8.2
            Exercise 8.3
            Exercise 8.4
            Exercise 8.5
            Exercise 8.6
    9. Hypothesis Testing
        Flipping Coins
        Testing a Difference in Means
        Other Test Statistics
        Testing a Correlation
        Testing Proportions
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 9.1
            Exercise 9.2
    10. Least Squares
        Least Squares Fit
        Coefficient of Determination
        Minimizing MSE
        Estimation
        Visualizing Uncertainty
        Transformation
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 10.1
            Exercise 10.2
            Exercise 10.3
    11. Multiple Regression
        StatsModels
        On to Multiple Regression
        Control Variables
        Nonlinear Relationships
        Logistic Regression
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 11.1
            Exercise 11.2
            Exercise 11.3
            Exercise 11.4
    12. Time Series Analysis
        Electricity
        Decomposition
        Prediction
        Multiplicative Model
        Autoregression
        Moving Average
        Retrodiction with Autoregression
        ARIMA
        Prediction with ARIMA
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 12.1
            Exercise 12.2
            Exercise 12.3
    13. Survival Analysis
        Survival Functions
        Hazard Function
        Marriage Data
        Weighted Bootstrap
        Estimating Hazard Functions
        Estimating Survival Functions
        Lifelines
        Confidence Intervals
        Expected Remaining Lifetime
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 13.1
            Exercise 13.2
    14. Analytic Methods
        Normal Probability Plots
        Normal Distributions
        Distribution of Sample Means
        Distribution of Differences
        Central Limit Theorem
        The Limits of the Central Limit Theorem
        Applying the CLT
        Correlation Test
        Chi-squared Test
        Computation and Analysis
        Glossary
        Exercises
            Exercise 14.1
            Exercise 14.2
            Exercise 14.3
            Exercise 14.4
    Index
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