Marketplace books

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  Statistics Hacks: Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds

  by Bruce Frey

  Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into "Statistics Hacks," These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage in several real-world situations-including bu

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  The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statist

  by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman

  During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology.

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  Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

  by Gordon S. Linoff

  Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more.