{"title":"The lady who tasted tea—a bit of statistical history","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"A story of a summer afternoon experiment to test a woman’s ability to taste the difference between tea added to milk or milk added to tea leading to the first use of statistical inference resulting from experimentation.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121246944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simpson’s paradox—two examples and a bit more","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0031","url":null,"abstract":"When data that are not homogeneous are combined they often produce a variety of results that are deceptive and likely useless. Discussions and examples illustrate.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122152829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlation and association —interpretation","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"A review and discussion of correlation as a measure of association and its properties. Topics include spurious correlation, direct and indirect correlation, and discussions of the properties and problems of interpretation.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130362096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contribution to statistics","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0041","url":null,"abstract":"A poem entirely devoted to the description of statistics by a Nobel prize winning poet.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132727830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outlier/extreme values —a difficult decision","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"A discussion of outliers and extreme observations illustrated by the presidential election (Bush/Gore) election of the year 2000.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133277099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mean value—estimation and a few properties","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The mean value is perhaps the most fundamental statistic and the chapter describes its properties and features that make it an important and necessary analytic tool.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130503183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geometry of an approximate average rate","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"The geometry of a rate is surprisingly simple and provides insight into the use of rates, particularly in the context of survival rates.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"299302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116580460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regression to the mean— father/son data","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"A historic observation that tall fathers tend to have shorter sons and short fathers tend to have taller sons is explored. The “Sports Illustrated jinx” is related and also described.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127606510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coincidence—a statistical description","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"The focus is on two classic descriptions of birthdays occurring on the same day. That is, the probability that two people selected at random from 23 have the same birthday and a specific probability a person’s birthday matches a specific day.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128047433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eye-witness evidence—Collins versus state of California","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0025","url":null,"abstract":"An example of the misuse and misunderstanding of statistical evidence when applied to eye-witness accounts of a crime used in a court room.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129466912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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