Seeing through statistics /
Jessica M. Utts.
- 3rd ed.
- Belmont, CA : Thomson/Brooks/Cole, c2005.
- xxiv, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part 1 : Finding data in life - 1. The benefits and risks of using statistics - 2. Reading the news - 3. Measurements, mistakes and misunderstandings - 4. How to get a good sample - 5. Experiments and observational studies - 6. Getting the big picture -- Part 2: Finding life in data - 7. Summarizing and displaying measurement data - 8. Bell-shaped curves and other shapes - 9. Plot, graphs and pictures - 10. Relationships between measurement variables - 11. Relationships can be deceiving - 12. Relationship between categorical variables - 13. Statistical significance for 2 x 2 tables - 14. Reading the economic news - 15. Understanding and reporting trends over time -- Part 3 Understanding uncertainty in life: 16. Understanding probability and long-term expectations - 17. Psychological influences on personal probability - 18. When intuition differs from relative frequency -- Part 4: Making judgments from surveys and experiments: 19. The diversity of samples from the same population - 20. Estimating proportions with confidence - 21. The role of confidence intervals in research - 22. Rejecting chance-testing hypotheses in research - 23. Hypothesis testing-examples and case studies - 24. Significance, importance, and undetected differences - 25. Meta-analysis: resolving inconsistencies across studies - 26. Ethics in statistical studies - 27. Putting what you have learned to the test.