Statistics for Absolute Beginners: A Plain English Introduction

by Oliver Theobald

Data is collected how far we travel, who we interact with online and where we spend our money. Every bit of data has a story to tell but isolated, these specs of information lie dormant and useless. Written by the author of Amazon Best Seller Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners, this book guides you through the fundamentals of inferential and descriptive statistics with a mix of practical demonstrations, visual examples, historical origins, and plain English explanations.As a resource for beginners, this book won't teach you how to beat the market or predict the next U.S. election but ensures a concise and simple-to-understand supplement to a standard textbook. This includes an introduction to important techniques used to infer predictions from data, such as hypothesis testing, linear regression analysis, confidence intervals, probability theory, and data distribution. Descriptive statistics techniques such as central tendency measures and standard deviation are also covered in this book.Full Overview of Book Themes• Historical Development of Statistics• Data Sampling • Central Tendency Measures • Measures Of Spread • Measures Of Position• Designing Hypothesis Tests• Probability & Bayes Theory• Regression Analysis• Clustering AnalysisAs the launch pad to quantitative research, business optimization or a promising career in data science, it's never been a better time to brush up on statistics or learn these concepts for the very first time.

Genres: Nonfiction, Amazon, Mathematics

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 24, 2020

Reviews

[Andrew Fraser · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first few chapters were a good reminder to statistics but when selling to “absolute beginners”, the final few chapters didn’t provide the necessary context or helpful hints to understand and instead just turned into a bit of a formula book. Wouldn’t take too much to remedy and still learnt a lot from it but the final few chapters took their toll

[Betsy Street · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars only because I don't have much to compare it to. It gave me a good introduction to concepts of statistics. Sometimes page breaks happened at weird spots and his personal opinions came out in some weird areas. Useful book.

[William Weir · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too short and as a result felt superficial. Probably best used as a refresher of key concepts rather than a foundation for absolute beginners.

[Annie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I give this book 3.5 stars. It's a short book with a little everything relating to statistics and probability and with some examples worked out to show how the equations work.

[Jeff Walzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic introduction to stats

A well written book with clear explanations and examples that make it easy to dive into the basics of learning about stats. A highly recommended read to start one’s journey into stats and a springboard to continue to dive deeper.