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Statistics For Dummies by Deborah Rumsey ISBN:0764554239 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (356 pages) This reference offers explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, and includes examples that show how these concepts apply to your everyday life. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Table of Contents Statistics for Dummies Introduction Part I - Vital Statistics about Statistics Chapter 1 - The Statistics of Everyday Life Chapter 2 - Statistics Gone Wrong Chapter 3 - Tools of the Trade Part II - Number-Crunching Basics Chapter 4 - Getting the Picture—Charts and Graphs Chapter 5 - Means, Medians, and More Part III - Determining the Odds Chapter 6 - What Are the Chances?—Understanding Probability Chapter 7 - Gambling to Win Part IV - Wading through the Results Chapter 8 - Measures of Relative Standing Chapter 9 - Caution—Sample Results Vary! Chapter 10 - Leaving Room for a Margin of Error Part V - Guesstimating with Confidence Chapter 11 - The Business of Estimation—Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals Chapter 12 - Calculating Accurate Confidence Intervals Chapter 13 - Commonly Used Confidence Intervals—Formulas and Examples Part IV - Putting a Claim to the (Hypothesis) Test Chapter 14 - Claims, Tests, and Conclusions Chapter 15 - Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests—Formulas and Examples Part VII - Statistical Studies—The Inside Scoop Chapter 16 - Polls, Polls, and More Polls Chapter 17 - Experiments—Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results? Chapter 18 - Looking for Links—Correlations and Associations Chapter 19 - Statistics and Toothpaste—Quality Control Part VIII - The Part of Tens Chapter 20 - Ten Criteria for a Good Survey Chapter 21 - Ten Common Statistical Mistakes Sources Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Sidebars Statistics For Dummies by Deborah Rumsey ISBN:0764554239 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (356 pages) This reference offers explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, and includes examples that show how these concepts apply to your everyday life. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Table of Contents Statistics for Dummies Introduction Part I - Vital Statistics about Statistics Chapter 1 - The Statistics of Everyday Life Chapter 2 - Statistics Gone Wrong Chapter 3 - Tools of the Trade Part II - Number-Crunching Basics Chapter 4 - Getting the Picture—Charts and Graphs Chapter 5 - Means, Medians, and More Part III - Determining the Odds Chapter 6 - What Are the Chances?—Understanding Probability Chapter 7 - Gambling to Win Part IV - Wading through the Results Chapter 8 - Measures of Relative Standing Chapter 9 - Caution—Sample Results Vary! Chapter 10 - Leaving Room for a Margin of Error Part V - Guesstimating with Confidence Chapter 11 - The Business of Estimation—Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals Chapter 12 - Calculating Accurate Confidence Intervals Chapter 13 - Commonly Used Confidence Intervals—Formulas and Examples Part IV - Putting a Claim to the (Hypothesis) Test Chapter 14 - Claims, Tests, and Conclusions Chapter 15 - Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests—Formulas and Examples Part VII - Statistical Studies—The Inside Scoop Chapter 16 - Polls, Polls, and More Polls Chapter 17 - Experiments—Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results? Chapter 18 - Looking for Links—Correlations and Associations Chapter 19 - Statistics and Toothpaste—Quality Control Part VIII - The Part of Tens Chapter 20 - Ten Criteria for a Good Survey Chapter 21 - Ten Common Statistical Mistakes Sources Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Sidebars Back Cover 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 how these concepts apply to your everyday life. You’ll see how to take the margin of error out of opinion polls and how to analyze and interpret data for improved classroom or on-the-job performance. Discover how to: Interpret and critique graphs and charts Determine the odds with probability Guesstimate with confidence using confidence levels Set up and carry out a hypothesis test Compute statistical formulas About the Author Deborah Rumsey earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Ohio State University (OSU) in 1993. Upon graduating, she joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University, winning the distinguished Presidential Teaching Award and earning tenure and promotion in 1998. In 2000, she returned to OSU as the Director of the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center, where she is today. Deb is the Editor of the “Teaching Bits” of the Journal of Statistics Education ; she has also published papers and given professional presentations on the subject of statistics education, with a particular emphasis on statistical literacy (skills for understanding statistics in everyday life and the workplace) and immersive learning environments (environments that promote students’ discovery of ideas on their own). Statistics For Dummies by Deborah Rumsey ISBN:0764554239 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (356 pages) This reference offers explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, and includes examples that show how these concepts apply to your everyday life. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Table of Contents Statistics for Dummies Introduction Part I - Vital Statistics about Statistics Chapter 1 - The Statistics of Everyday Life Chapter 2 - Statistics Gone Wrong Chapter 3 - Tools of the Trade Part II - Number-Crunching Basics Chapter 4 - Getting the Picture—Charts and Graphs Chapter 5 - Means, Medians, and More Part III - Determining the Odds Chapter 6 - What Are the Chances?—Understanding Probability Chapter 7 - Gambling to Win Part IV - Wading through the Results Chapter 8 - Measures of Relative Standing Chapter 9 - Caution—Sample Results Vary! Chapter 10 - Leaving Room for a Margin of Error Part V - Guesstimating with Confidence Chapter 11 - The Business of Estimation—Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals Chapter 12 - Calculating Accurate Confidence Intervals Chapter 13 - Commonly Used Confidence Intervals—Formulas and Examples Part IV - Putting a Claim to the (Hypothesis) Test Chapter 14 - Claims, Tests, and Conclusions Chapter 15 - Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests—Formulas and Examples Part VII - Statistical Studies—The Inside Scoop Chapter 16 - Polls, Polls, and More Polls Chapter 17 - Experiments—Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results? Chapter 18 - Looking for Links—Correlations and Associations Chapter 19 - Statistics and Toothpaste—Quality Control Part VIII - The Part of Tens Chapter 20 - Ten Criteria for a Good Survey Chapter 21 - Ten Common Statistical Mistakes Sources Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Sidebars Statistics for Dummies Deborah RumseyPh.D. Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030 http://www.wiley.com Copyright © 2003 Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978- 646-8700. 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