Statistics For Dummies - Deborah Rumsey
Statistics For Dummies
Autor:
Deborah Rumsey
Verlag:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Jahr:
2011
Seiten:
384 Seiten
Produktart:
Buch / Softcover
ISBN/EAN:
978-0-470-91108-2
Auflage:
2 Rev ed
Einbandart:
Paperback
Maße:
188 x 235 mm / 580 g
Abbildungen:
ill
Listenpreis:
£ 14,99 (GBP); $ 19,99 (USD)
Sprache:
englisch
Kategorie:
Statistik
ISBN-10:
0-470-91108-5 / 0470911085
ISBN-13:
978-0-470-91108-2 / 9780470911082
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Weitere Informationen von "Statistics For Dummies":
Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition, explains statistical concepts like "mean," "media," and "probability" and helps readers develop confidence analysing and interpreting business data for improved on-the-job performance. This book is packed with practical advice and features 25% new and updated content.
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.
Über den Autor:
Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a professor of statistics and the director of the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Statistics Workbook For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis von "Statistics For Dummies":
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.
Fachgebiete:
Mathematik/Informatik
Mathematik
Statistik
Sozialwissenschaften
Pädagogik
Bildungstheorie
Weitere Informationen zu "Statistics For Dummies"
Auflage:
2 Rev ed
Einbandart:
Paperback
Maße:
188 x 235 mm / 580 g
Abbildungen:
ill
Listenpreis:
£ 14,99 (GBP); $ 19,99 (USD)
Sprache:
englisch
Kategorie:
Statistik
ISBN-10:
0-470-91108-5 / 0470911085
ISBN-13:
978-0-470-91108-2 / 9780470911082









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