Beginning statistics an introduction for social scientists
Liam Foster, Ian Diamond, Julie Jefferies.
- Second edition.
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2012
- xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-277) and index.
Are statistics relevant to real life? -- Data and table manners -- Graphs and charts -- Averages and percentiles -- Spreads -- Transforming data -- The normal distribution -- From samples to populations -- Getting confident -- Fun with proportions -- How to decide how to decide -- More tricky decisions -- Correlation and regression -- Analysing tables with categorical data -- Conclusion -- Statistical tables -- Answers to practice questions -- Algebra and mathematical notation explained.
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Statistics -- Methodology.