Statistics All-in-One For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119902560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 640 str.

Deborah J. Rumsey

Spis treści

Introduction 1Unit 1: Getting Started with Statistics 5Chapter 1: The Statistics of Everyday Life 7Chapter 2: Taking Control: So Many Numbers, So Little Time 15Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade 25Unit 2: Number-Crunching Basics 47Chapter 4: Crunching Categorical Data 49Chapter 5: Means, Medians, and More 65Chapter 6: Getting the Picture: Graphing Categorical Data 99Chapter 7: Going by the Numbers: Graphing Numerical Data 125Unit 3: Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 167Chapter 8: Coming to Terms with Probability 169Chapter 9: Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution 199Chapter 10: The Normal Distribution 219Chapter 11: The t-Distribution 251Chapter 12: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 263Unit 4: Guesstimating and Hypothesizing with Confidence 285Chapter 13: Leaving Room for a Margin of Error 287Chapter 14: Confidence Intervals: Making Your Best Guesstimate 305Chapter 15: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions 341Chapter 16: Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas and Examples 361Unit 5: Statistical Studies and the Hunt for a Meaningful Relationship 389Chapter 17: Polls, Polls, and More Polls 391Chapter 18: Experiments and Observational Studies: Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results? 413Chapter 19: Looking for Links: Correlation and Regression 435Chapter 20: Two-Way Tables and Independence 467Appendix : Tables for Reference 503Index 513

O autorze

Deborah Rumsey, PhD, is a Professor of Statistics and Statistics Education Specialist at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Statistics For Dummies, Statistics Workbook For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies.