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A Very Small Sample: A Brief Exploration of Applied Statistics
Three Benefits from Reading This Book:
#1—This book is entertaining! Rory Jones, an accomplished statistician with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from Brigham Young University and whose research has been published in an academic journal, has explained statistical concepts through entertaining examples in this brief book.
#2—This book is a great deal! For a small price of only 99 cents, you can learn more about four different statistical concepts, including variance, samples, correlation, and big data.
#3—This book is easy to read! Instead of focusing on verbose explanations and complex formulas, this book focuses on conceptual examples that help the reader see how statistics can be used every day.
This book helps explain the benefits of learning statistics—especially in an introductory course, a course that often leaves students wondering, “Am I ever going to use this information again?”
The short answer is “Yes!”
Indeed, the probability of using statistics outside the classroom is high. Even the most simple statistical concepts typically have a broad range of application, both for experts in the field as well as for those who only learn the basics. By reading this brief book, which can easily accompany a more thorough textbook with formulas and problems to solve if desired, the reader will realize the importance of statistical principles like variance, samples, and correlation.
While the examples will appear incredibly trivial to many readers, especially to those more advanced in the discipline, these examples highlight the practicality of statistics in an extremely simple way—and hopefully serve as motivation for the reader to master (if he or she hasn’t already) at least some statistical concepts.
I want to emphasize that this book is written for a broad audience, providing useful information regardless of whether the reader plans to pursue a career in statistics or not. If the reader plans to take an introductory course in statistics, likely to fulfill a general education requirement or to fulfill a prerequisite for more advanced coursework, this book provides many benefits. However, if the text is read without an accompanying course, this book still provides many benefits. Designed with such a broad audience in mind, this book has been written more like a novel than a textbook, the material focusing on conceptual examples instead of mathematical computations. A reader interested more in mathematically rigorous explanations should ensure that the text is accompanied by a textbook and/or collegiate course.
Indeed, the overall goal of the book is quite simple: to explore the broad application of statistics through entertaining and relatable examples.
#1—This book is entertaining! Rory Jones, an accomplished statistician with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from Brigham Young University and whose research has been published in an academic journal, has explained statistical concepts through entertaining examples in this brief book.
#2—This book is a great deal! For a small price of only 99 cents, you can learn more about four different statistical concepts, including variance, samples, correlation, and big data.
#3—This book is easy to read! Instead of focusing on verbose explanations and complex formulas, this book focuses on conceptual examples that help the reader see how statistics can be used every day.
This book helps explain the benefits of learning statistics—especially in an introductory course, a course that often leaves students wondering, “Am I ever going to use this information again?”
The short answer is “Yes!”
Indeed, the probability of using statistics outside the classroom is high. Even the most simple statistical concepts typically have a broad range of application, both for experts in the field as well as for those who only learn the basics. By reading this brief book, which can easily accompany a more thorough textbook with formulas and problems to solve if desired, the reader will realize the importance of statistical principles like variance, samples, and correlation.
While the examples will appear incredibly trivial to many readers, especially to those more advanced in the discipline, these examples highlight the practicality of statistics in an extremely simple way—and hopefully serve as motivation for the reader to master (if he or she hasn’t already) at least some statistical concepts.
I want to emphasize that this book is written for a broad audience, providing useful information regardless of whether the reader plans to pursue a career in statistics or not. If the reader plans to take an introductory course in statistics, likely to fulfill a general education requirement or to fulfill a prerequisite for more advanced coursework, this book provides many benefits. However, if the text is read without an accompanying course, this book still provides many benefits. Designed with such a broad audience in mind, this book has been written more like a novel than a textbook, the material focusing on conceptual examples instead of mathematical computations. A reader interested more in mathematically rigorous explanations should ensure that the text is accompanied by a textbook and/or collegiate course.
Indeed, the overall goal of the book is quite simple: to explore the broad application of statistics through entertaining and relatable examples.
17 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2019
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