Gibilisco S. Statistics Demystified

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004. — 352 p.Now anyone with an interest in mastering statistics can do so - without formal training, unlimited time, or a private tutor. In Statistics Demystified, best-selling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective, anxiety-soothing, and totally painless way to learn or review statistics fundamentals. With "Statistics Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time - at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers problems at the end of each chapter and part to help expose potential weaknesses, and a 100-question "final exam" to reinforce what you learned. If you want to build or refresh your understanding of statistics, here's a fast and ntertaining self-teaching course that's specially designed to reduce anxiety. Get ready to:Absorb statistics jargon and notation.
Figure odds in games of chance and other situations using probability principles.
Understand randomness and uncertainty.
Discover the right ways to obtain data and mine it for meaning.
Create and interpret tables and graphs.
Take a "final exam" and grade it yourself!"Statistics Demystified is a great springboard for more- advanced and more-specific statistics courses and subjects. Let it be your direct route to learning or brushing up on this essential topic.Statistical Concepts
Background Math
Sets
Relations and Functions
Numbers
One-Variable Equations
Simple Graphs
Tweaks, Trends, and Correlation
Quiz
Learning the Jargon
Experiments and Variables
Populations and Samples
Distributions
More Definitions
Quiz
Basics of Probability
The Probability Fallacy
Key Definitions
Properties of Outcomes
Permutations and Combinations
The Density Function
Two Common Distributions
Quiz
Descriptive Measures
Percentiles
Quartiles and Deciles
Intervals by Element Quantity
Fixed Intervals
Other Specifications
Quiz
Test: Part One
Statistics in Action
Sampling and Estimation
Source Data and Sampling Frames
Random Sampling
Estimation
Confidence Intervals
Quiz
Hypotheses, Prediction, and Regression
Assumptions and Testing
What’s the Forecast?
Regression
Quiz
Correlation, Causation, Order, and Chaos
Correlation Principles
Causes and Effects
Chaos, Bounds, and Randomness
Quiz
Some Practical Problems
Frequency Distributions
Variance and Standard Deviation
Probability
Data Intervals
Sampling and Estimation
Hypotheses, Prediction, and Regression
Correlation and Causation
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Test: Part Two
Final Exam
Answers to Quiz, Test, and Exam Questions
Suggested Additional References