Statistics for people who hate statistics/

Salkind, Neil J

Statistics for people who hate statistics/ Neil J Salkind - 3rd ed. - Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2007. - 404 p.

1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's up to you --
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. Just the truth: an introduction to understanding reliability and validity --
7. Hypotheticals and you: testing your questions --
8. Are your curves normal? Probability and why it counts --
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. Two too many factors: factorial analysis of variance --
14. Cousins or just good friends? Testing relationships using the correlation coefficient --
15. Predicting who'll win the super bowl: using linear regression --
16. What to do when you're not normal: chi-square and some other nonparametric tests --
17. Some other (important) statistical procedures you should know about --
18. A statistical software sampler --
19. The ten best internet sites for statistics stuff --
20. The ten commandments of data collection --
Answers to practice questions --
Appendix A: SPSS in less than 30 minutes --
Appendix B: Tables --
Appendix C: Data sets.

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