Statistics Unplugged
Published on 1. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-495-83008-5 (ISBN)
Description
It takes a real teacher, such as Professor Sally Caldwell, to write a statistics textbook that allows students to truly understand and connect with the subject matter. "Statistics Unplugged, International Edition" comes into its Second Edition with the same goals as in the First Edition: to help students overcome their apprehension of statistics. Caldwell does this by emphasizing the logic behind statistical analysis, and by helping students gain an intuitive understanding of statistics - not just by focusing on formulas and equations. Student feedback about the book repeatedly points out Caldwell's student-friendly language and how she writes in a way that makes the material understandable. Brief and affordable, "Statistics Unplugged, International Edition" succinctly alleviates student's fears of formulas, and helps them to understand the relevance of statistics to their lives.
More details
Edition
International ed of 3rd revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-495-83008-5 (9780495830085)
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Content
INTRODUCTION: METHODS, MATERIAL, AND MOMENTS TO REMEMBER. 1. THE What and How of Statistics. 2. Describing Data and Distributions. 3. The Shape of Distributions. 4. The Normal Curve. 5. Four Fundamental Concepts. 6. Confidence Intervals. 7. Hypothesis Testing with a Single Sample Mean. 8. Hypothesis Testing with Two Samples (Mean Difference and Difference of Means). 9. Beyond the Null Hypothesis. 10. Analysis of Variance. 11. The Chi-Square Test. 12. Correlation and Regression. Appendix A: Table of Areas Under the Normal Curve (Distribution of Z). Appendix B: Family of t Distributions (Two-Tailed Test). Appendix C: Family of t Distributions (One-Tailed Test). Appendix D: Distribution of F (.05 Level of Significance). Appendix E: Distribution of F (.01 Level of Significance). Appendix F: Distribution of Q (.05 Level of Significance). Appendix G: Distribution of Q (.01 Level of Significance). Appendix H: Critical Values for Chi-Square (x2). Appendix I: Critical Values of r (Correlation Coefficient). Appendix J: Data Sets and Computer-Based Data Analysis. Answers to Chapter Problems.