Rumsey D.J. Statistics For Dummies

2nd Edition. — New York: For Dummies, 2016. — 411 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-29352-1.Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293521) was previously published as Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9780470911082). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.
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.Vital Statistics about Statistics
Statistics in a Nutshell
The Statistics of Everyday Life
Taking Control: So Many Numbers, So Little Time
Tools of the Trade
Number-Crunching Basics
Means, Medians, and More
Getting the Picture: Graphing Categorical Data
Going by the Numbers: Graphing Numerical Data
Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution
The Normal Distribution
The t-Distribution
Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
Guesstimating and Hypothesizing infidence
Leaving Room for a Margin of Error
Confidence Intervals: Ma king Your Best Guesstimate
Claims, Tests, and Conclusions
Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas and Examples
Statistical Studies and the Hunt for a Meaningful Relationship
Polls, Polls, and More Polls
Experiments: Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results?
Looking for Links: Correlation and Regression
Two-Way Tables and Independence
The Part of Tens
Ten Tips for the Statistically Savvy Sieuth
Ten Surefire Exam Score Boosters
Appendix: Tables for Reference