Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach /
Michael Wood.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- xv, 208 p. ; 22 cm.
- Palgrave study guides .
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.