Statistics for dummies

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Presents a comprehensive guide to understanding basic statistics and offers instruction on interpreting and critiquing graphs and charts, determining the odds and probabilities, setting up and carrying out a hypothesis test, and computing statistical formulas.

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Full title :Statistics for dummies / by Deborah Rumsey.

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Publication Date:©2003.

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Publisher(s):Wiley
Place of Publication:Hoboken, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 355 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0764554239, 9780764554230
oclc:ocm53938238
LC Classification:HA29
Dewey Decimal:519.5

The statistics of everyday life -- Statistics gone wrong -- Tools of the trade -- Getting the picture: charts and graphs -- Means, medians, and more -- What are the chances? Understanding probability -- Gambling to win -- Measures of relative standing -- Caution: sample results vary! -- Leaving room for a margin of error -- The business of estimation: interpreting and evaluating confidence intervals -- Calculating accurate confidence intervals -- Commonly used confidence intervals: formulas and examples -- Polls, polls, and more polls -- Experiments: medical breakthroughs or misleading results? -- Looking for links: correlations and associations -- Statistics and toothpaste: quality control -- Ten criteria for a good survey -- Ten common statistical mistakes.

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70.03 methods, techniques and organizat… Educational tools (form) Popular Work Research Design Statistics Statistics as Topic Statistics as Topic -- methods Statistik Statistique -- Manuels d'enseignement s… Statistiques