Against All Odds: Inside Statistics (2020) is a series web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Against All Odds: Inside Statistics online in HD.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Storyline
Picking up where the original 'Against All Odds' series finished, this series maintains the same emphasis on “doing” statistics. Through real-world examples, Dr. Pardis Sabeti guides viewers through the wide range of statistical applications used by scientists, business owners, and even Shakespeare scholars, in their work and daily lives.
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Pardis Sabeti
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2020-08-10 |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 32 |
| Genre | series |
| Language | English |
| Status | Ended |
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: What Is Statistics? (2020-08-10) — Statistics is the art and science of gathering, organizing, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. And without rudimentary knowledge of how it works, people can’t make inform
- E2: Stemplots (2020-08-10) — As a first step in visualizing data, we use stemplots to understand measurements taken by the U.S. Army when they size up soldiers in order to design well-fitting gear and supplies
- E3: Histograms (2020-04-20) — Meteorologists use histograms to map when lightning strikes and this visualization technique helps them understand the data in new ways.
- E4: Measures of Center (2021-04-19) — It's helpful to know the center of a distribution — which is what the clerical workers in Colorado Springs found out in the 1980s when they campaigned for comparable wages for comp
- E5: Boxplots (2021-04-26) — Using the example of hot dog calorie counts, we use boxplots to visualize the five-number summary and make comparisons between different types of frankfurters.
- E6: Standard Deviation (2021-05-03) — How can we compare sales at two franchises in the Wahoo's restaurant chain? Standard deviation helps us quantify the variability in sales.
- E7: Normal Curves (2021-05-10) — A nature preserve that's tracked bird migrations through New England for decades records tons of bird-related data; everything from wingspan measurements to arrival dates provides
- E8: Normal Calculations (2021-05-24) — Visit the Boston Beanstalks club for tall people. Height is normally distributed and we can use membership cutoffs and population data to calculate z-scores.
- E9: Checking Assumption of Normality (2021-05-31) — Production at Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs provides a number of distributions that look normal — but are they?
- E10: Scatterplots (2021-06-07) — Plotting annual numbers of Florida powerboat registrations and manatee killings suggests an uncomfortable relationship for the marine mammals.
- E11: Fitting Lines to Data (2020-05-18) — Winter snowpack in the Colorado Rockies can predict spring water supply. Plotting annual measurements in a scatterplot lets resource managers draw a regression line that helps them
- E12: Correlation (2021-06-21) — Twin studies track how similar identical and fraternal twins are on various characteristics, even if they don't grow up together. Correlation lets researchers put a number on it.
- E13: Two-Way Tables (2021-07-12) — One city surveyed the happiness of its residents. Two-way tables help organize the data and tease out relationships between happiness levels and opinions about aspects of the city
- E14: The Question of Causation (2021-07-19) — This historical story describes how researchers untangled the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.
- E15: Designing Experiments (2020-06-01) — We move beyond observational studies — like one of marine life in the remote Line Islands — to designing experiments that manipulate various subject groups — as in the case of a me
- E16: Census and Sampling (2021-08-02) — The U.S. counts every resident every ten years — or at least tries to. Statisticians use sampling from a population as an alternative to a complete count, as utilized at a potato c
- E17: Sample and Surveys (2020-06-08) — A visit to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center illustrates how pollsters create accurate surveys. They can then use details from their sample to make inferences about a w
- E18: Introduction to Probability (2020-06-09) — Probability is the mathematics of chance behavior — and can help predict events such as the daily weather, or whether an asteroid will collide with Earth.
- E19: Probability Models (2020-06-22) — Casinos are as well versed in probability as statisticians and probability models help them maintain the house advantage over gamblers.
- E20: Random Variables (2020-06-29) — The Challenger space shuttle disaster was blamed on faulty O-rings. How can probability calculations on random variables help predict the chances of this kind of failure?
- E21: Binomial Distributions (2020-06-22) — Sickle cell disease is an example of binomial distribution in families with two parents who are carriers for this genetic trait.
- E22: Sampling Distributions (2020-06-23) — Heights of third graders in one class. Quality scores for circuit boards at a factory. Taking multiple samples allows us to visualize the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
- E23: Control Charts (2019-11-11) — This quality control method helped Quest Diagnostics streamline and improve their system for processing and testing lab samples so they could meet their nightly deadlines.
- E24: Confidence Intervals (2018-02-26) — A battery manufacturer tests just a sample of its product to verify its claims about battery life. A margin of error and a confidence level help quantify its accuracy.
- E25: Tests of Significance (2019-12-09) — Is a newly-discovered poem really written by William Shakespeare? Using statistical analysis of his known word use, researchers set up null and alternative hypotheses to investigat
- E26: Small Sample Inference for One Mean (2019-12-16) — A brewer uses this technique to monitor quality differences in multiple batches of the same beer.
- E27: Comparing Two Means (2018-03-19) — Comparing the activity and calorie expenditure levels of Western office workers and African hunter gatherers adds some surprising new data to the science of obesity.
- E28: Inference for Proportions (2021-02-22) — Managers have no clue what conditions actually motivate their workers best, as shown by research conducted by Teresa Amabile, host of the original Against All Odds.
- E29: Inference for Two-Way Tables (2018-04-30) — Host Dr. Pardis Sabeti's own research examines possible genetic resistance to deadly Lassa fever in West Africa. Using Inference for Two-Way Tables helps untangle potential relatio
- E30: Inference for Regression (2021-03-08) — Historical story of how statisticians built the case against DDT as the culprit behind plummeting peregrine falcon population numbers.
- E31: One-Way ANOVA (2020-02-17) — Does holding a heavier clipboard make you estimate that a jar of coins has more money in it than if you're holding a lighter clipboard? Psychologists use One-Way ANOVA to analyze t
- E32: Summary (2020-02-24) — This review of the course through the preceding 31 modules provides an overview of the practice of statistics and helps students appreciate how statistical methods can help them be
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Against All Odds: Inside Statistics have? 1 season(s) with 32 episodes.
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