02360cam a22002654a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000340008804000180012204200080014005000220014808200180017010000210018824500790020926000620028830000340035050000200038450513910040465000160179585600890181185600900190085601040199011803797OSt20190926160500.0991006s2000    caua          001 0 eng    a   99050472   a0761916229 (pbk.: alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc00aHA29b.S2365 200000a519.5 SAL2231 aSalkind, Neil J.10aStatistics for people who (think they) hate statistics /cNeil J. Salkind.  aThousand Oaks, Calif. :bSage Publications, Inc.,cc2000.  axxi, 385 p. :bill. ;c26 cm.  aIncludes index.  aI. YIPEE! I'M IN STATISTICS
1. Statistics or Sadistics: It's up to You
II. SIGMA FREUD AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages
3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability
4. A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words
5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients
6. Predicting Who'll Win the Superbowl: Using Linear Regression
III. TAKING CHANCES FOR FUN AND PROFIT
7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why it Counts
IV. SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT: USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
9. Significantly Significant: What it Means for You and Me
10. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
11. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
12. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
13. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships using the Correlation Coefficient
14. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests
15. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
16. A Statistical Software Sampler
V. TEN THINGS YOU'LL WANT TO KNOW AND REMEMBER
17. The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
18. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
9. Ten Question Practice Tests
Appendix A. SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes
Appendix B. Tables
Appendix C. Data Sets
Glossary
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