Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach / (Record no. 10524)
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| ISBN | 1403901074 |
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| Classification number | 519.5 WOO |
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| Personal name | Wood, Michael |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Michael Wood |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Basingstoke Palgrave 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | XV, 208 Seiten |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: Statistics, Non-mathematical Methods and How to Use this Book.- Probability, Samples, Buckets and Balls.- Summing Things Up: Graphs, Averages, Standard Deviations, Correlations and so on.- Why Use Statistics? Pros, Cons and Alternatives.- Calculating Probabilities: Mental Ball Crunching and Computer Games.- Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How Can We Decide What's True?.- How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals.- Checking if Anything is Going On: Tests of Null Hypotheses.- Predicting the Unpredictable, or Explaining the Inexplicable: Regression Models.- How to Do It and What Does It Mean? The Design and Interpretation of Investigations.- Appendix A: Using Spreadsheets (Excel) for Statistics.- Appendix B: A Brief Guide to the Statistical Package, SPSS.- Appendix C: Data and Program Files for Downloading.- Appendix D: Comments on Some of the Exercises.- Notes.- References.- Index. |
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| Topical Term | Statistics |
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