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Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer
| Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
| Autore | Wainer Howard |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 519.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
| Classificazione | MR 2100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453728203321 |
Wainer Howard
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer
| Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
| Autore | Wainer Howard |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 519.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
| Classificazione | MR 2100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790508603321 |
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Wainer Howard
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer
| Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / / Howard Wainer |
| Autore | Wainer Howard |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 519.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics - Graphic methods
Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
0-691-10301-1
1-4008-4927-6 |
| Classificazione | MR 2100 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again ! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811531403321 |
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Wainer Howard
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 / / Anders Hall
| A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 / / Anders Hall |
| Autore | Hald Anders <1913-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (611 pages) |
| Disciplina | 519.2/09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematical statistics
Mathematical statistics - History - 17th century Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century Probabilities - History - 17th century Probabilities - History - 18th century Probabilities |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| ISBN |
9780471725176
047172517X 9780471502302 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750; Contents; 1 The Book and Its Relation to Other Works; 2 A Sketch of the Background in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; 3 Early Concepts of Probability and Chance; 4 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae, c. 1565; 5 The Foundation of Probability Theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654; 6 Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, 1657; 7 John Graunt and the Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, 1662; 8 The Probabilistic Interpretation of Graunt's Life Table; 9 The Early History of Life Insurance Mathematics;10 Mathematical Models and Statistical Methods in Astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo11 The Newtonian Revolution in Mathematics and Science; 12 Miscellaneous Contributions between 1657 and 1708; 13 The Great Leap Forward, 1708–1718: A Survey; 14 New Solutions to Old Problems, 1708–1718; 15 James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi, 1713; 16 Bernoulli's Theorem; 17 Tests of Significance Based on the Sex Ratio at Birth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830966703321 |
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Hald Anders <1913->
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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