Includes bibliographical references and index.

If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials on 'People’s court,' or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need ‘The Cartoon Guide to Statistics’ to put you on the road to statistical literacy. ‘The Cartoon Guide to Statistics’ cover all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trials, the Central Limit Theorem hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more – all explained in simple, clear, and, yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant! Larry Gonick is the author or coauthor of four previous cartoon guides by HarperCollins. Woollcott Smith is a statistician active in research and consulting, and a professor at Temple University.