Authors: Bruce Frey
ISBN-13: 9780596101640, ISBN-10: 0596101643
Format: Paperback
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Bruce Frey, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology and research in education at the University of Kansas. Previous books include "Online Auctions! I Didn't Know You Could Do That " published by Sybex and, with Neil Salkind, "eBay Online Auctions: Effective Buying and Selling with eBay" published by Muska & Lipman. He is an award-winning teacher of statistics, research design, and measurement. Bruce enjoys movies and collecting comic books, especially those early 1960s DCs with the cool checkered flag pattern. (Note to his tenure committee: In the research field of education, he is also an author of fifty scholarly publications and papers.)
Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Or learn how to be a better gambler? This fun and practical book presents concepts from statistical research and psychological measurement in easy-to-understand language.
Ch. 1 | The basics | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Discovering relationships | 41 |
Ch. 3 | Measuring the world | 96 |
Ch. 4 | Beating the odds | 151 |
Ch. 5 | Playing games | 208 |
Ch. 6 | Thinking smart | 254 |