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9780761927761

Statistics For People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761927761

  • ISBN10:

    076192776X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-01
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Summary

This Second Edition of the bestselling text teaches an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear. Researchers and students who find themselves uncomfortable with the analysis portion of their work will appreciate this book's unhurried pace and thorough, friendly presentation. Salkind takes students through various statistical procedures, beginning with correlations and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. In addition, there is coverage of SPSS (and data sets for hands-on experience), and a review of more advanced statistical techniques, such as reliability, validity, introductory non-parametric statistics, and more.

Table of Contents

Part I: Yippee! I'm in Statistics
Chapter 1: Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You
Part II: Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 2: Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages
Chapter 3: Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability
Chapter 4: A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words
Chapter 5: Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients
Part III: Taking Chances for Fun and Profit
Chapter 6: Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
Chapter 7: Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts
Part IV: Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics
Chapter 8: Significantly Significant: What it Means for You and Me
Chapter 9: t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
Chapter 10: t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
Chapter 11: Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12: Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13: Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient
Chapter 14: Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression
Chapter 15: What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests
Chapter 16: Just the Truth: An Introduction Understanding Reliability and Validity
Chapter 17: Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
Chapter 18: A Statistical Software Sampler
Part V: Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember
Chapter 19: The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
Chapter 20: The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
Appendix A: SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes
Appendix B: Tables
Appendix C: About the Data Sets
Glossary
Index
About the Author

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