Understanding Statistics As A Language
Published on 28. February 2017
154 pages
978-1-4566-0323-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book has successfully taught introductory statistics to non-mathematicians who had previously failed two semester of statistics or had completed the courses with no idea of what they had done. It uses a statistical decision model that is easy to understand and apply. Each chapter leads the student through one stats test using Minitab. The book helps the student understand which stat to use and what the results mean to a business person.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER 1: STATISTICS AS A LANGUAGE
- Communications Tool
- Language and Academic Studies
- Behavior as a Statistic
- Functions of Statistics
- Measurements
- Counting
- Hypothesis Testing
- Decision Model
- CHAPTER 2: CENTRAL TENDENCIES
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
- Determining Skewness
- Central Tendency Uses
- Exercise
- CHAPTER 3: DISTRIBUTION
- Normal Curve
- Probability
- Standard Scores
- t-Distribution
- F-Distribution
- Chi-Square Distribution
- Exercise
- CHAPTER 4: MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
- General Example
- Range
- Semi-Interquartile Range
- Percentiles
- Average Deviation
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
- General Example
- Exercise
- CHAPTER 5 : GRAPHICS
- Tables
- Graphs
- Microsoft Programs
- Exercises
- CHAPTER 6: INDEPENDENT GROUP t-TEST
- CHAPTER 7: ONE-WAY ANOVA
- CHAPTER 8: PAIRED t-TEST
- CHAPTER 9: PEARSON PRODUCT MOMENT CORRELATION
- CHAPTER 10: MANN-WHITNEY U TEST
- CHAPTER 11: KRUSKAL-WALLIS
- CHAPTER 12: WILCOXON SIGNED-RANKS TEST
- CHAPTER 13: SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION
- CHAPTER 14: FRIEDMAN TWO-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE TEST
- CHAPTER 15: CHI-SQUARE GOODNESS OF FIT
- CHAPTER 16: CHI-SQUARE TEST OF INDEPENDENCE
- APPENDIX1: t DISTRIBUTION
- APPENDIX 2: F DISTRIBUTION
- APPENDIX 3: TUKEY HONESTLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE TABLE
- APPENDIX 4: NORMAL DISTRIBUTION TABLE-Z PROCEDURES
- APPENDIX 5: CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION
- APPENDIX 6: MANN-WHITNEY U-TEST
- APPENDIX 7: WILCOXON MATCHED-PAIRS
- APPENDIX 8: SPEARMAN rs
- APPENDIX 9: DISTRIBUTION USED TO DETERMINE CRITICAL VALUE
- APPENDIX 10: SAMPLE SIZE DATA
- APPENDIX 11: RANDOM NUMBERS TABLE
- APPENDIX 12: NETLIBRARY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STATISTICS
- APPENDIX 13: WORKS CITED
