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Salkind, Neil J

Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics - 4th ed - SAGE, Los Angeles 2011 - xxiii,442

Part I. Yippee! I'm in Statistics Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You Part II. Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics Chapter 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages Chapter 3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability Chapter 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words Chapter 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients Chapter 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity Part III. Taking Chances for Fun and Profit Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions Chapter 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts Part IV. Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me Chapter 10. Only The Lonely: The One Sample Z test Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance Chapter 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient Chapter 16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression Chapter 17. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About Chapter 19. A Statistical Software Sampler Part V. Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember Chapter 20. The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff Chapter 21. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection Appendix A: SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes Appendix B: Tables Appendix C: Data Sets Appendix D: Answers to Practice Questions

ISBN: 978-1-4129-7959-7

Dewey Class. No.: 519.5 Sal