Statistics Today Everyday Applications, Research Questions, Insights, and Challenges /

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...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Outros Autores: Weihs, Claus (Editor), Krämer, Walter (Editor), Buschfeld, Sarah (Editor)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Edição:1st ed. 2024.
Colecção:Society, Environment and Statistics,
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Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68907-3
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Sumário:
  • 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.