Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach /: a non-mathematical approach. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Wood.
• Other Names: Wood, Michael, 1949-
• Contents: Introduction: Statistics, Non-mathematical Methods and How to Use this Book; Probability, Samples, Buckets and Balls; Summing Things Up: Graphs, Averages, Standard Deviations, Correlations and so on; Why Use Statistics? Pros, Cons and Alternatives; Calculating Probabilities: Mental Ball Crunching and Computer Games; Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How Can We Decide What's True?; How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals; Checking if Anything is Going On: Tests of Null Hypotheses; Predicting the Unpredictable, or Explaining the Inexplicable: Regression Models; How to Do It and What Does It Mean? The Design and Interpretation of Investigations; Appendix A: Using Spreadsheets (Excel) for Statistics; Appendix B: A Brief Guide to the Statistical Package, SPSS; Appendix C: Data and Program Files for Downloading; Appendix D: Comments on Some of the Exercises; Notes; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 519.5; Study & learning skills: general; Statistics; Probabilities; Statistiques; Probabilités; Probabilities; Statistics; Statistische methoden; Statistique; Statistics; Probabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137201706; 1137201703
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.