Statistics for dummies
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Deborah J Rumsey
- ناشر : Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2003
- شابک / ISBN : 9780764554230
Description
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.
Summary:
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.
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.
