STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO (think they) HATE STATISTICS

• Main Author: Salkind, Neil J. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, California SAGE Publications, Inc. 2000
• Subjects: Statistics
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxi, 385 pages illustrations 26 cm
• ISBN: 0761916210

Written for people who want to learn or brush up on the basics of statistics but question their abilities, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to the topic. The book begins with an introduction to the language of statistics and then covers descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Throughout, the author offers: a Difficulty Rating Index for each chapter's material; tips for doing and thinking about a statistical technique; top tens for everything from the best ways to create a graph to the most effective techniques for data collection; steps that break techniques down into a clear sequence of procedures; SPSS tips for executing each major statistical technique. practise exercises at the end of each chapter, followed by worked-out solutions. The book concludes with a statistical software sampler and a description of the best Internet sites for statistical information and data resources. Readers also have access to a website for downloading data that they can use to practise additional exercises from the book. Students and researchers will appreciate the book's unhurried pace and thorough, friendly presentation