Using Statistics A Gentle Introduction

by Rugg, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780335222193
• ISBN10: 0335222196
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

There are plenty of excellent stats books in the world, but very few of them are entertaining reading. One result is that many students are deterred by stats. But this book is different.

Author Biography

Gordon Rugg is head of the Knowledge Modelling Group at Keele University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
Preamble	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Some introductory concepts	p. 1
Measurement theory	p. 15
Descriptive statistics	p. 20
Patterns in data and presentation of data	p. 25
'None of the above': the role of knowledge representation	p. 46
The sixfold paths: some observations on probability theory	p. 53
Inferential statistics: some introductory thoughts	p. 68
Non-parametric statistics	p. 77
Correlations	p. 89
Parametric statistics	p. 100
Multidimensional statistics	p. 108
Some general considerations	p. 117
Appendix	p. 124
Bibliography	p. 127
Glossary and useful concepts	p. 129
Sources of quotations	p. 132
Index	p. 133
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