Table of Contents:
  • Yippee! I'm in Statistics. Statistics or sadistics? It's up to you
  • Welcome to the Interesting, Useful, Flexible, Fun, and (Very) Deep Worlds of R and RStudio. Here's why we love R and how to get started
  • Using RStudio: much easier than you think
  • Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics. Computing and understanding averages : means to an end
  • Understanding variability : vive la difference
  • Creating graphs : a picture really is worth a thousand words
  • Computing correlation coefficients: ice cream and crime
  • An introduction to understanding reliability and validity : just the truth
  • Taking Chances for Fun and Profit. Hypotheticals and you : testing your questions
  • Probability and why it counts : fun with a bell-shaped curve
  • Significantly Different : Using Inferential Statistics. Significantly significant : what it means for you and me
  • The one-sample z test : only the lonely
  • 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-a brief introduction
  • Testing relationships using the correlation coefficient : cousins or just good friends?
  • Using linear regression : predicting the future
  • More Statistics! More Tools! More Fun!. Chi-square and some other nonparametric tests : what to do when you're not normal
  • Some other (important) statistical procedures you should know about.