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Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Los Angeles:
Sage,
2017.
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| Edition: | 6th ed.; |
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Table of Contents:
- A note to the student: why I wrote this book
- About the author
- Yippee! I'm in statistics
- Statistics or sadistics? : it's up to you
- Zigma 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 : correlation coefficients
- Just the truth : an introduction to understanding reliability and validity
- 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
- Only the lonely: the one-sample z-test
- 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
- Two too many factors : factorial analysis of variance?a brief introduction
- Cousins or just good friends? : testing relationships using the correlation coefficient
- Predicting who'll win the super bowl : using linear regression
- Big data (tentative title)
- 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 10 (or more) best internet sites for statistics stuff
- The 10 commandments of data collection
- Appendix a: spss in less than 30 minutes
- Appendix b: tables
- Appendix c: data sets
- Appendix d: answers to practice questions
- Appendix e: math: just the basics
- Glossary
- Index.