Interpreting data : a first course in statistics / Alan J.B. Anderson..
By: Anderson, Alan J. B
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Chapman and Hall, 1989Description: xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0412295601; 0412295709 .Subject(s): StatisticsDDC classification: 519.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 519.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00024753 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Textbook for first-year students. Reviews the criteria for the design of questionaires, planned experiments and surveys; also, considers research methodology in general. Application areas range over economic and social studies, demography, epidemiology and the life sciences in general. Available in paper at $24. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Includes index.
Populations and samples -- Tabular and graphical summaries of data -- Numerical summary of data-sample statistics -- Association between variables -- Testing hypotheses -- Published statistics -- Delving in tables -- Changes with time-index numbers -- Demography-introduction -- Components of population change -- Population projection -- Changes with time-time series -- Data analysis and the computer -- Social surveys -- Schemes of investigation -- Controlled experiments -- Sampling schemes -- Longitudinal studies and interrupted time series -- Smoking and lung cancer.