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This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the "average person", including topics relevant for sustainable development.
Technical jargon and formalism have been avoided as much as possible, and a detailed statistical background is not assumed of the reader, making the book accessible to anyone interested in current research in statistical applications. Providing an unobscured look at a thoroughly fascinating science, it will help students to develop enthusiasm for statistical issues and methods, and may even inspire ideas for their own projects.
List of contents
Preface.- Part I Human Life, Medicine, and Genetics.- Season of birth and human longevity: A new theory why children born in November live longer.- Where do drugs work in the body? A systematic statistical data analysis.- Drug studies: Using statistics to achieve the optimal dose.- Statistical alarm systems in intensive care medicine.- Personalized medicine: How statistics helps not to drown in the flood of data.- Modulating genetic effects on bladder cancer risk in an area of coal, iron, and steel industries.- Statistics and the maximum human lifespan.- Part II Sports and Entertainment.- Statistics and soccer.- The players' anxiety at the penalty kick: Who is the best penalty taker, who the best goalkeeper?.- Music data analysis.- Statistics and horse race betting - favorites vs. longshots.- The statistics of the German 6/49 lotto.- Part III Money and Business.- Statistics at the stock exchange.- Statistics in the risk assessment of bank portfolios.- On rating the raters: Statistics in the rating industry.- Gross domestic product, greenhouse gas emissions, and global warming.- Part IV Nature and Technology.- Flood statistics: Still on the river bank or already in the water?.- How statistics helps to reduce rejects.- Statistics and reliability of technical products.- Durable machine components: How statistical design of experiments optimizes wear protection.- Part V Intricacies of Measurement.- Measuring the immeasurable: Statistics, intelligence, and education.- Uncovering embarrassing truths through statistics.- Samples and missing data.- Part VI Language Data.- Who is supposed to read all this? Automatic analysis of text data.- Statistical modeling of current linguistic realities around the world: The case of Singapore.- Linguistic manifestations of cultural differences across national varieties of English - a methodological survey.- Part VII From Here to Where?.- Isdata science more than statistics? The bigger picture.
