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Making Sense of Statistics - Fred Pyrczak

Making Sense of Statistics

A Conceptual Overview

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
178 Seiten
2014 | 6th New edition
Pyrczak Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-936523-27-6 (ISBN)
CHF 73,30 inkl. MwSt
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• An overview of descriptive and inferential statistics without formulas and computations.


• Clear and to-the-point narrative makes this short book perfect for all courses in which statistics are discussed.


• Helps statistics students who are struggling with the concepts. Shows them the meanings of the statistics they are computing.


• This book is easy to digest because it is divided into short sections with review questions at the end of each section.


• Running sidebars draw students’ attention to important concepts.

Part A: The Research Context


1. The Empirical Approach to Knowledge


2. Types of Empirical Research


3. Introduction to Sampling


4. Scales of Measurement


5. Descriptive, Correlational, and Inferential Statistics


Part B: Descriptive Statistics


6. Frequencies, Percentages, and Proportions


7. Shapes of Distributions


8. The Mean: An Average


9. Mean, Median, and Mode


10. Range and Interquartile Range


11. Standard Deviation


Part C: Correlational Statistics


12. Correlation


13. Pearson r


14. Coefficient of Determination


15. Scattergram


16. Multiple Correlation


Part D: Inferential Statistics


17. Variations on Random Sampling


18. Sample Size


19. Standard Error of the Mean


20. Introduction to the Null Hypothesis


21. Decisions About the Null Hypothesis


22. Introduction to the t Test


23. Reports of the Results of t Tests


24. One-Way ANOVA


25. Two-Way ANOVA


26. Chi-Square


27. Limitations of Significance Testing


28. Effect Size


Appendix A: Computation of the Standard Deviation


Appendix B: Notes on Interpreting Pearson r and Linear Regression


Appendix C: Table of Random Numbers


Appendix D: More About the Null Hypothesis

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.2014
Verlagsort Los Angeles
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Statistik
ISBN-10 1-936523-27-2 / 1936523272
ISBN-13 978-1-936523-27-6 / 9781936523276
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