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Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach / Michael Wood.

By: Wood, Michael, 1949-.
Series: Palgrave study guides. Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Description: xv, 208 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781403901071 (pbk.); 1403901074 (pbk.).Subject(s): Statistics | ProbabilitiesDDC classification: 519.5
Contents:
1. Introduction: statistics, non-mathematical methods and how to use this book. 2. Probability, samples, buckets and balls. 3. Summing things up: graphs, averages, standard deviations, correlations and so on. 4. Why use statistics? Pros, cons and alternatives. 5. Calculating probabilities: mental ball crunching and computer games. 6. Possible worlds and actual worlds: how can we decide what's true? 7. How bid is the error? confidence intervals. 8. Checking if anything is going on: tests of null hypotheses. 9. Predicting the unpredictable or explaining the inexplicable: regression models. 10. How to do it and what does it mean? The design and interpretation of investigations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: statistics, non-mathematical methods and how to use this book. 2. Probability, samples, buckets and balls. 3. Summing things up: graphs, averages, standard deviations, correlations and so on. 4. Why use statistics? Pros, cons and alternatives. 5. Calculating probabilities: mental ball crunching and computer games. 6. Possible worlds and actual worlds: how can we decide what's true? 7. How bid is the error? confidence intervals. 8. Checking if anything is going on: tests of null hypotheses. 9. Predicting the unpredictable or explaining the inexplicable: regression models. 10. How to do it and what does it mean? The design and interpretation of investigations.