Full Description
User-friendly and engaging introduction to elementary statistics.
Written in a personal and informal style, this book helps readers make the leap from apprehension to comprehension of elementary statistics. Statistics For The Terrified , 5e is intended as a supplemental text for undergraduate or graduate courses in statistics and research methods, as a refresher for students who have already taken a statistics course, or as a primer for new students of elementary statistics.
Millions of people have math anxiety- yet this is rarely taken into consideration in textbooks on statistics. This book presents self-help strategies that help people manage their math anxiety so they can relax and build confidence while learning statistics. After covering the essentials required for the journey into statistics, the remainder of the book presents an introduction to elementary statistics with a great deal of encouragement, support, step-by-step assistance, and numerous concrete examples, without lengthy theoretical discussions.
Contents
PREFACE SECTION I Essentials for Statistics Chapter 1 - Effective Strategies for Studying Statistics Self-assessment Assumptions about the Reader Effective Strategies for Studying Statistics Chapter 2 - Overcoming Math Anxiety What Causes Math Anxiety? Overview of Rational Emotive Therapy Irrational Beliefs How to Deal with Math Anxiety Chapter 3 - Basic Math Concepts How to Use this Chapter Positive and Negative Numbers Fractions Decimals and Percents Exponents and Roots Order of Computation Summation Answers to Example Problems SECTION II Describing Univariate Data Chapter 4 - Frequency Distributions What are statistics? Variables Scales of Measurement Frequency Distributions Graphing Data Normal Curve Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 5 - Descriptive Statistics What are statistics? Measures of central tendency Measures of variability Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 6 - The Normal Curve What is the Normal Curve? Properties of the Normal Curve Proportions of Scores Under the Normal Curve Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 7 - Percentiles and Standard Scores Percentiles Standard Scores Other Standard Scores T Scores Converting Standard Scores to Percentiles A Word of Caution Problems Answers to Problems SECTION III Correlation Coefficients and Linear Regression Chapter 8 - Correlation Coefficients Correlation Coefficients Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient Interpreting Correlation Coefficients Other Methods of Correlation Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 9 - Linear Regression Regression Equations Standard Error of the Estimate Problems Answers to Problems SECTION IV Inferential Statistics Chapter 10 - Introduction to Inferential Statistics Probability The Sampling Experiment Sample Values (Statistics) and Population Values (Parameters) The Null Hypothesis Type I and Type II Errors Statistical Significance and Type I Error Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 11 - The t Test The t Test for Independent Samples Formulas for the t Test for Independent Samples The Critical Value of t Requirements for Using the t Test for Independent Samples The t Test for Dependent (Matched) Samples Directional Versus Nondirectional Tests Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 12 - Analysis of Variance Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Computation Steps Strength of Association Post hoc Analyses The Scheffe Method of Post-Hoc Analysis Problems Answers to Problems SECTION V Additional Topics: Non-parametric Statistics and Using Statistical Software Programs Chapter 13 - Non-parametric Statistics: Chi-square Nonparametric Statistical Tests One-way Test of Chi-square Yates' Correction for Continuity A Bit More Problems Answers to Problems Chapter 14 - How to Use SPSS What is SPSS? Starting SPSS Basic Steps in Data Analysis Finding Help in SPSS Chapter 15 - Postscript APPENDICES A Proportions of Area Under the Normal Curve B Table of Random Numbers C Critical Values of t D Critical Values of F E Critical Values of Chi-squared F Glossary of Formulas
