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- ISBN-10 : 0190278951
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190278953
- Author: Barbara Blatchley
Statistics in Context offers a fresh approach to teaching statistics. Designed to reduce students’ fear of numbers, the text aims to put statistics-wary readers at ease with uncomplicated explanations and practical examples drawn from real research and everyday life. Written in lively, accessible prose, the narrative describes the who, what, when, where, and why, and also the how, of statistics.
table of contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Statistics–Who Needs Them?
Chapter 2 Types of Data
Chapter 3 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Creating and Interpreting Graphics
Chapter 4 Measures of Central Tendency: What’s So Average about the Mean?
Chapter 5 Variability: The “Law of Life”
Chapter 6 Where Am I? Normal Distributions and Standard Scores
Chapter 7 Basic Probability Theory
Chapter 8 The Central Limit Theorem and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 9 The z-Test
Chapter 10 The t-Test
Chapter 11 Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12 Confidence Intervals and Effect Size: Building a Better Mousetrap
Chapter 13 Correlation and Regression: Are We Related?
Chapter 14 The Chi-Square Test
Chapter 15 Non-parametric Tests
Chapter 16 Which Test Should I Use and Why?