Using Statistics
A Gentle Introduction
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2007
151 pages
978-0-335-23502-5 (ISBN)
Description
Written in an informal style, this book guides the reader gently through the field from the simplest descriptive statistics to multidimensional approaches. It's written in an accessible way, with few calculations and fewer equations, for readers from a broad set of academic disciplines ranging from archaeology to zoology.
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preamble
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Some introductory concepts
- Chapter 2 Measurement theory
- Chapter 3 Descriptive statistics
- Chapter 4 Patterns in data and presentation of data
- Chapter 5 'None of the above': the role of knowledge representation
- Chapter 6 The sixfold paths: some observations on probability theory
- Chapter 7 Inferential statistics: some introductory thoughts
- Chapter 8 Non-parametric statistics
- Chapter 9 Correlations
- Chapter 10 Parametric statistics
- Chapter 11 Multidimensional statistics
- Chapter 12 Some general considerations
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Glossary and useful concepts
- Sources of quotations at the beginning of each chapter
- Index
- Back cover
