TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Michael
TI  - Making sense of statistics: a non-mathematical approach 
SN  - 9781403901071 (pbk.)
U1  - 519.5 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Probabilities
N1  - 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
ER  -