Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics / Neil J. Salkind.
By: Salkind, Neil J [author]
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BookPublisher: California : Sage, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxvii, 483 pages : illustrations, tables, graphs ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781452277714.Subject(s): StatisticsDDC classification: 519.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 519.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230902 |
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The bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics is now in its Fifth Edition and now also available in an interactive eBook edition! Lecturers - contact your local SAGE representative to discuss your course needs or to request an inspection copy.Continuing its hallmark use of humour, this text helps students develop an understanding of an often intimidating and difficult subject with an approach that is informative, personable, and clear. Author Neil J. Salkind takes students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. In addition, the book covers SPSS and includes reviews of more advanced techniques, such as reliability, validity, and introductory non-parametric statistics. The new Fifth Edition offers more examples than ever before, and a new Real World Stats feature at the end of each chapter. Interactive eBook Edition available!The interactive eBook edition features animations of figures in the book, step-by-step videos that demonstrate how to carry out various procedures, data sets that are clickable right from the book pages, quick quizzes, video clips of the author talking about statistics in everyday life, and much more to help students boost their confidence with statistics. The interactive eBook is available for FREE when purchased as a bundle using ISBN 9781483344201 and provides 180 day access. Click here to see a video walk-through of the rich Interactive eBook features. Click here to view a sample chapter from the Interactive eBook.
Includes index.
Part I: Yippee! I'm in statistics -- Statistics or sadistics? It's up to you -- Part II: 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: correlation coefficients -- Just the truth: an introduction to understanding reliability and validity -- Part III: Taking chances for fun and profit -- Hypotheticals and you: testing your questions -- Are your curves normal? probability and why it count -- Part IV: 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 -- 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 -- Part V: Ten things you'll want to know and remember -- The ten (or more) best internet sites for statistics stuff -- The ten commandments of data collection.
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