Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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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 Différence : 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