Making Sense of Statistics A Non-Mathematical Approach

Making Sense of Statistics A Non-Mathematical Approach / by Michael Wood.

Making Sense of Statistics provides a thorough, but accessible, introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. The book does not require you to use any algebraic formulae or equations, but it does explain how and why methods work, and exactly what answers mean....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Red Globe Press, 2003.
Edition:1st ed. 2003.
Series:Study Guides
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Study Skills.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items