Statistics Unplugged
4th Edition
Published on 24. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-8400-2943-0 (ISBN)
Description
Learn statistics the easy way with STATISTICS UNPLUGGED! Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand style, this practical book takes the intimidation out of statistics and helps you understand the relevance of statistics to your own life. Interesting examples throughout the book allow you to see what is really going on with the numbers instead of being overwhelmed by the numbers themselves.
More details
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Nashville
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8400-2943-0 (9780840029430)
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Person
Sally Caldwell received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. Her teaching areas include statistics, research methods, and urban sociology. Her research interest is deception in social relationships. She is also the author of ROMANTIC DECEPTION (Adams Media, 2000).
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 Between 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.