Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salkind, Neil J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2004]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Yippee! I'm in statistics
  • Statistics or sadistics? It's up to you
  • Sigma Freud and descriptive statistics
  • Means to an end : computing and understanding averages
  • Vive la DiffĂ©rence : understanding variability
  • A picture really is worth a thousand words
  • Ice cream and crime : computing correlation coefficients
  • Taking chances for fun and profit
  • Hypotheticals and you : testing your questions
  • Are your cruves normal? Probability and why it counts
  • Significantly different : using inferential statistics
  • Significantly significant : what it means for you and me
  • t(ea) for two : tests between the means of different groups
  • t(ea) for two (again) : tests between the means of related groups
  • Two groups too many? Try analysis of variance
  • Two too many factors : factorial analysis of variance
  • Cousins or just good friends? Testing relationships and using the correlation coefficient
  • Predicting who will win the super bowl : using linear regression
  • What to do when you're not normal : chi-square and some other nonparametric tests
  • Just the truth : an introduction to understanding reliability and validity
  • Some other (important) statistical procedures you should know about
  • A statstical software sampler
  • Tons of things you'll want to know and remember
  • The ten (or more) best internet sites for statistics stuff
  • The ten commandments of data collection