TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salkind,Neil J.
TI  - Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics
SN  - 9781412979597
AV  - HA29 .S2365 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Statistics as Topic
N1  - Accompanying disc has title: PASW statistics; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Yippee! I'm in Statistics -- Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You -- Part II. Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics -- Chapter 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages -- Chapter 3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability -- Chapter 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words -- Chapter 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients -- Chapter 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity -- Part III. Taking Chances for Fun and Profit -- Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions -- Chapter 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts -- Part IV. Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics -- Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me -- Chapter 10. Only The Lonely: The One Sample Z test -- Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups -- Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups -- Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient -- Chapter 16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression -- Chapter 17. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests -- Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About -- Chapter 19. A Statistical Software Sampler -- Part V. Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember -- Chapter 20. The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff -- Chapter 21. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
N2  - "The Fourth Edition of Neil J. Salkind's bestselling text introduces students to the fundamentals of basic statistics in an informative, personable, and unintimidating way. The author expertly guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with basic descriptive statistics and correlation and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques including analysis of variance."--Publisher's website
ER  -