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Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics » (3rd Edition)
Authors: Neil J. Salkind
ISBN-13: 9781412951500, ISBN-10: 141295150X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: July 2007
Edition: 3rd Edition
Author Biography: Neil J. Salkind
Neil J. Salkind has been teaching at the University of Kansas for 30 years, in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education. He taught courses in developmental theories, life-span development, statistics, and research methods and received his PhD in human development from the University of Maryland. He has published more than 80 professional papers and is the author of several college-level textbooks, including Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (now in the third edition), Child Development, Exploring Research, and Introduction to Theories of Human Development (Sage 2004). He was editor of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography from 1989 through 2002 and is active in the Society for Research in Child Development.
Book Synopsis
This textbook introduces the most commonly used techniques to organize data and perform basic statistical work. Salkind (human development, University of Kansas) covers computing measures of central tendency, distributions and curve plotting, graphing data, probability, statistical significance, correlation/regression, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| 1 | Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You | 5 |
| 2 | Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages | 21 |
| 3 | Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability | 38 |
| 4 | A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words | 53 |
| 5 | Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients | 85 |
| 6 | Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression | 109 |
| 7 | Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions | 131 |
| 8 | Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts | 147 |
| 9 | Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me | 171 |
| 10 | t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups | 191 |
| 11 | t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups | 206 |
| 12 | Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance | 220 |
| 13 | Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient | 240 |
| 14 | What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests | 255 |
| 15 | Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About | 268 |
| 16 | A Statistical Software Sampler | 275 |
| 17 | The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff | 289 |
| 18 | The Ten Commandments of Data Collection | 295 |
| App. A | SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes | 299 |
| App. B: Tables | 331 | |
| App. C: Data Sets | 345 | |
| Glossary | 365 | |
| Index | 373 | |
| About the Author | 385 |
Subjects
Science & Nature
All Science & Nature Mathematics
Nonfiction Science & Nature Mathematics
Nonfiction Science & Nature All Science & Nature
All Science & Nature MathematicsNonfiction
Science & Nature MathematicsNonfiction
Science & Nature All Science & Nature
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