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9781412951517

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9781412951517

  • ISBN10:

    1412951518

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-08-06
  • Publisher: Sage Pubns
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Summary

Now in its Third Edition, this bestseller teaches a subject, students often find intimidating and difficult, in a way that is informative, personable, and clear. To make the teaching and learning of statistics even less intimidating the text now includes: - A Companion Web Site geared towards helping students to make the most of the text - A dynamic and much expanded suite of Instructor's Resources - Updated examples from a variety of disciplines, and more of them than ever before - More Time to Practice exercises, with answers in the back of the book - Additional coverage of general research methods basics - Expanded coverage of power

Table of Contents

Yipee! 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 Difference: Understanding Variability
A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words
Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients
Predicting Who'll Win the Superbowl: Using Linear Regression
Taking Chances for Fun and Profit
Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
Are Your Curves 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
Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships using the Correlation Coefficient
What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests
Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
A Statistical Software Sampler
Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember
The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
Ten Question Practice Tests
SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes
Tables
Data Sets
Glossary
Index
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