Chances Are
The Only Statistic Book You'll Ever Need
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 1998
224 pages
978-1-4616-2293-2 (ISBN)
Description
Chances Are is the first book to make statistics accessible to everyone, regardless of how much math you remember from school.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
3,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-2293-2 (9781461622932)
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Book
08/1998
Madison Books
€18.20
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Person
By Steve Slavin
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Chapter 1. Presentation of Statistical Data
- Simple Tables
- Line Graphs
- Bar Graphs
- Histograms
- Pie Charts
- Complex Graphs
- Chapter 2. Basic Arithmetic Operations
- Converting Proper Fractions into Decimals
- Rounding
- Multiplying Decimals
- Interpolation
- Extrapolation
- Fast Multiplication and Division
- Fast Multiplication
- Fast Division
- Manipulating Negative Numbers
- Chapter 3. The Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
- The Mean
- Simple Mean
- Weighted Average
- The Median
- The Mode
- The Range
- Finding the Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
- Chapter 4. Frequency Distribution
- Frequency Distributions
- Graphing Frequency Distributions
- Line Graphs
- Bar Graphs
- Histograms
- Cumulative Frequency
- Chapter 5. Percents
- Changing Decimals into Percents
- Changing Fractions into Percents
- Changing Percents into Decimals
- Finding Percentage Changes
- Percentage Distribution
- Finding Percentage Distributions
- Pie Charts
- Chapter 6. Percentiles
- Using a Cumulative Percentage Graph
- Deciles and Quartiles
- Finding Scores, Percentiles, Deciles, and Quartiles on the Cumulative Percentage Graph
- Obtaining Percentile Ranks from Frequency Distribution Tables
- Finding the Cumulative Frequency and Setting True Limits
- Chapter 7. Standard Deviation
- Calculating Standard Deviation with Ungrouped Scores
- Calculating Standard Deviation with Grouped Scores
- Chapter 8. The Normal Curve
- The Standard Normal Distribution
- Finding the Percentile Rank
- Z-Scores
- Finding Percent of Cases Falling between Two Scores
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 9. Probability
- Sampling with Replacement
- The Addition Rule
- The Multiplication Rule
- Sampling without Replacement
- Double Counting
- Probability and the Normal Curve
- One- and Two-Tailed Probability Values
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 10. Correlation
- Positive, Negative, and Perfect Correlations
- Calculating the Coefficient of Correlation
- Chapter 11. Prediction and Regression
- Predicting Individual Scores
- Freehand Regression Line Fitting
- Constructing Regression Lines by Predicting Y-Scores
- Using Regression Lines
- Appendix
- Recommendations for Further Reading
- About the Author
