Beginning Statistics
eBook - ePub

Beginning Statistics

An Introduction for Social Scientists

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beginning Statistics

An Introduction for Social Scientists

About this book

In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. Chapters address the following questions:

  • Why bother learning statistics in the first place and are they relevant to real life?
  • How do I make sensible tables and informative graphs?
  • What are descriptive and inferential statistics and how are they used?
  • What are regression and correlation anyway?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle
  3. Advertisement
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Figures
  10. Permissions
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. 1 Introduction – Are Statistics Relevant to Real Life?
  13. 2 Data and Table Manners
  14. 3 Graphs and Charts
  15. 4 Averages and Percentiles
  16. 5 Spreads
  17. 6 Transforming Data
  18. 7 The Normal Distribution
  19. 8 From Samples to Populations
  20. 9 Getting Confident
  21. 10 Fun with Proportions
  22. 11 How to Decide How to Decide
  23. 12 More Tricky Decisions
  24. 13 Correlation and Regression
  25. 14 Analysing Tables with Categorical Data
  26. 15 Conclusion
  27. Appendix 1 Statistical Tables
  28. Appendix 2 Answers to Practice Questions
  29. Appendix 3 Algebra and Mathematical Notation Explained
  30. Glossary
  31. References
  32. Index