Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? Which hospital has the best outcome for a given procedure? When is it a good idea to buy a product's extended warranty? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, as do a surprising number of other mysteries, including: Is the "hot hand" among sports players real? How can you tell if Shakespeare is the probable author of a newly discovered poem? What is a guilt-free way to get someone to admit to cheating? And, how does a tax assessor calculate the market value of a house?
Lectures:
1. Describing Data and Inferring Meaning
2. Data and Distributions—Getting the Picture
3. Inference—How Close? How Confident?
4. Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread
5. Models of Distributions—Shapely Families
6. The Bell Curve
7. Correlation and Regression—Moving Together
8. Probability—Workhorse for Inference
9. Samples—The Few, The Chosen
10. Hypothesis Testing—Innocent Until
11. Confidence Intervals—How Close? How Sure?
12. Design of Experiments—Thinking Ahead
13. Law—You’re the Jury
14. Democracy and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
15. Election Problems and Engine Failure
16. Sports—Who’s Best of All Time?
17. Risk—War and Insurance
18. Real Estate—Accounting for Value
19. Misleading, Distorting, and Lying
20. Social Science—Parsing Personalities
21. Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting
22. Economics—“One” Way to Find Fraud
23. Science—Mendel’s Too-Good Peas
24. Statistics Everywhere


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