TY - BOOK AU - Salkind,Neil J. TI - Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics SN - 0761916229 (pbk.: alk. paper) AV - HA29 .S2365 2000 U1 - 519.5 SAL 23 PY - 2000/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications, Inc. KW - Statistics N1 - Includes index; I. 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 Index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/99050472-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/99050472-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/99050472-b.html ER -