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Author: Deborah J. Rumsey | Language: English | ISBN: 0470911085 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The fun and easy way to get down to business with statistics

Stymied by statistics? No fear ? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to your everyday life.

Statistics For Dummies shows you how to interpret and critique graphs and charts, determine the odds with probability, guesstimate with confidence using confidence intervals, set up and carry out a hypothesis test, compute statistical formulas, and more.

Tracks to a typical first semester statistics course
Updated examples resonate with today's students
Explanations mirror teaching methods and classroom protocol

Packed with practical advice and real-world problems, Statistics For Dummies gives you everything you need to analyze and interpret data for improved classroom or on-the-job performance.

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (May 3, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470911085
ISBN-13: 978-0470911082
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Introduction.

Part I: Vital Statistics about Statistics.

Chapter 1: Statistics in a Nutshell.

Chapter 2: The Statistics of Everyday Life.

Chapter 3: Taking Control: So Many Numbers, So Little Time.

Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade.

Part II: Number-Crunching Basics.

Chapter 5: Means, Medians, and More.

Chapter 6: Getting the Picture: Graphing Categorical Data.

Chapter 7: Going by the Numbers: Graphing Numerical Data.

Part III: Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem.

Chapter 8: Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution.

Chapter 9: The Normal Distribution.

Chapter 10: The t-Distribution.

Chapter 11: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem.

Part IV: Guesstimating and Hypothesizing with Confidence.

Chapter 12: Leaving Room for a Margin of Error.

Chapter 13: Confi dence Intervals: Making Your Best Guesstimate.

Chapter 14: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions.

Chapter 15: Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas and Examples.

Part V: Statistical Studies and the Hunt for a Meaningful Relationship.

Chapter 16: Polls, Polls, and More Polls.

Chapter 17: Experiments: Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results?

Chapter 18: Looking for Links: Correlation and Regression.

Chapter 19: Two-Way Tables and Independence.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20: Ten Tips for the Statistically Savvy Sleuth.

Chapter 21: Ten Surefi re Exam Score Boosters.

Appendix: Tables for Reference.

Index.

Although my work has kept me hip deep in statistics for the past 25-odd years, I'm always faced with having to educate new hires and interns on the basics. That's always been a challenge since I either make it so simple that they don't become sufficiently comfortable with the tools they need, or I make it so complicated that they just glaze over.

So, thought this would help me create a more effective lesson plan. I had one past experience with the "dummy" book series and was not all that impressed. But, this was a very different story - it actually is a pretty decent primer on stats! No, it's not going to take the place of an intro stats class, nor will you be able to pass yourself off as a statistician even if you memorize the entire tome. But it does give a good grounding in the basic tools, and does so in a clear, easily understood manner.

I see the main user of this book as someone who needs to use stats in his/her job, and is not all that comfortable with basic concepts and how stats should/should not be used or interpreted. I don't see this as being much help to someone who is taking a stats course at anything above the junior high (or perhaps high school) level.

Granted, some of the book is more filler than instructive. I found the chapters on graphics to be rather useless - the space could have been put to better use by having additional examples for some of the more complicated routines, such as regressions.

But overall, a very good primer to have at hand if you're a business stat user and it has been a while since you sat in a stats course.
By Comdet
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Having read the excellent short (but rather old and non-technical) book How to Lie With Statistics, I decided I wanted to learn more. So much of what I read relies on statistics, and it can be difficult to tell what to accept and what to question. I wanted a beginner book that could present the concepts in more detail, yet appropriate for someone who hasn't studied math in nearly twenty years. Sadly, I found this book's presentation mind-numbing. The author repeats elementary concepts so often that I found myself skimming from page to page, looking for the real information. It's there, but padded with so much bland verbiage that I decided to skip it all. I may be a dummy when it comes to statistics, but I'm an impatient dummy. Get to the point. I have bought Statistics in Plain English and hope it's clearer and more concise than this.
By T. Sanchez

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