- 209 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Making Sense of Statistics provides a thorough, but accessible, introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. The book does not require you to use any algebraic formulae or equations, but it does explain how and why methods work, and exactly what answers mean. Guidance is provided on how to design investigations, analyze data and interpret results. There are exercises and case studies from a variety of areas of application, and an accompanying website from which interactive spreadsheet models and data files can be downloaded.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 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 Big 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
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Index