Meaning from data [DVD videorecording] : statistics made clear

Title:

Author:

Starbird, Michael

ISBN:

9781598031461

Publication Information:

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2006.

Physical Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) in 2 containers : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 pages ; 19 cm.)

Series Uniform Title:

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Contents:

Disc 1: Part 1. Lecture 1. Describing data and inferring meaning ; Lecture 2. Data and distributions: getting the picture ; Lecture 3. Inference: how close? How confident? ; Lecture 4. Describing dispersion or measuring spread ; Lecture 5. Models of distributions: shapely families ; Lecture 6. The bell curve.

Disc 2: Part 1. Lecture 7. Correlation and regression: moving together ; Lecture 8. Probability: workhorse for inference ; Lecture 9. Samples: the few, the chosen ; Lecture 10. Hypothesis testing: innocent until ; Lecture 11. Confidence intervals: how close? How sure? ; Lecture 12. Design of experiments: thinking ahead.

Disc 3: Part 2. Lecture 13. Law: you're the jury ; Lecture 14. Democracy and Arrow's impossibility theorem ; Lecture 15. Election problems and engine failure ; Lecture 16. Sports: who's best of all time? ; Lecture 17. Risk: war and insurance ; Lecture 18. Real estate: accounting for value.

Disc 4: Part 2. Lecture 19. Misleading, distorting, and lying ; Lecture 20. Social science: parsing personalities ; Lecture 21. Quack medicine, good hospitals, and dieting ; Lecture 22. Economics: "one" way to find fraud ; Lecture 23. Science: Mendel's too-good peas ; Lecture 24. Statistics everywhere.

Summary:

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? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this 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.

Subject Term:

Digital video.

Mathematical statistics.

Statistics -- Study and teaching.

Distribution (Probability theory)

Sampling (Statistics)

Confidence intervals.

Statistical hypothesis testing.

Experimental design.

Statistics -- Methodology.

Genre:

Statistics.