Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics /
This text teaches an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear. The authors take students through various statistical procedures, beginning with correlation and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of...
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| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, California ; London, United Kingdom :
Sage,
[2026]
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Statistics or sadistics? it's up to you
- What do your data look like? : summarizing and picturing distributions
- Computing correlation coefficients : ice cream and crime
- Reliability and validity : tell the truth, precisely the truth
- The normal curve : it's shaped like a bell and it's everywhere!
- Hypotheticals and you : making guesses
- Significance : not everything that can be counted counts
- Single samples : one group all alone
- t(ea) for two : comparing two means
- More than two groups? : analysis of variance to the rescue
- Two (or more) ANOVAs in one : factorial analysis of variance
- Correlation coefficients and regression : can you relate?
- Chi-square and some other nonparametric tests : what to do when you're not normal
- Some other (important) statistical stuff you should know about.