Statistics For Dummies (eBook)

Deborah J. Rumsey (Autor)

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2011 | 2. Auflage
384 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-01206-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9780470911082) is now being published as Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293521). While this version features an older Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the new release and should not be considered a different product. The fun and easy way to get down to business with statistics Stymied by statistics? No fear ? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to your everyday life. Statistics For Dummies shows you how to interpret and critique graphs and charts, determine the odds with probability, guesstimate with confidence using confidence intervals, set up and carry out a hypothesis test, compute statistical formulas, and more. Tracks to a typical first semester statistics course Updated examples resonate with today's students Explanations mirror teaching methods and classroom protocol Packed with practical advice and real-world problems, Statistics For Dummies gives you everything you need to analyze and interpret data for improved classroom or on-the-job performance.

Autor

Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a professor of statistics and the director of the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Statistics Workbook For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies.

Inhalt

Introduction.
Part I: Vital Statistics about Statistics.
Chapter 1: Statistics in a Nutshell.
Chapter 2: The Statistics of Everyday Life.
Chapter 3: Taking Control: So Many Numbers, So Little Time.
Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade.
Part II: Number-Crunching Basics.
Chapter 5: Means, Medians, and More.
Chapter 6: Getting the Picture: Graphing Categorical Data.
Chapter 7: Going by the Numbers: Graphing Numerical Data.
Part III: Distributions and the Central LimitTheorem.
Chapter 8: Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution.
Chapter 9: The Normal Distribution.
Chapter 10: The t-Distribution.
Chapter 11: Sampling Distributions and the Central LimitTheorem.
Part IV: Guesstimating and Hypothesizing withConfidence.
Chapter 12: Leaving Room for a Margin of Error.
Chapter 13: Confi dence Intervals: Making Your BestGuesstimate.
Chapter 14: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions.
Chapter 15: Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas andExamples.
Part V: Statistical Studies and the Hunt for a MeaningfulRelationship.
Chapter 16: Polls, Polls, and More Polls.
Chapter 17: Experiments: Medical Breakthroughs or MisleadingResults?
Chapter 18: Looking for Links: Correlation and Regression.
Chapter 19: Two-Way Tables and Independence.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Tips for the Statistically Savvy Sleuth.
Chapter 21: Ten Surefi re Exam Score Boosters.
Appendix: Tables for Reference.
Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Mathematik • Statistics • Statistik
• ISBN-10: 1-118-01206-2 / 1118012062
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-01206-2 / 9781118012062