Full Description
The bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics is now in its Fifth Edition and now also available in an interactive eBook edition! Lecturers - contact your local SAGE representative to discuss your course needs or to request an inspection copy.Continuing its hallmark use of humour, this text helps students develop an understanding of an often intimidating and difficult subject with an approach that is informative, personable, and clear. Author Neil J. Salkind takes students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. In addition, the book covers SPSS and includes reviews of more advanced techniques, such as reliability, validity, and introductory non-parametric statistics. The new Fifth Edition offers more examples than ever before, and a new Real World Stats feature at the end of each chapter. Interactive eBook Edition available!The interactive eBook edition features animations of figures in the book, step-by-step videos that demonstrate how to carry out various procedures, data sets that are clickable right from the book pages, quick quizzes, video clips of the author talking about statistics in everyday life, and much more to help students boost their confidence with statistics. The interactive eBook is available for FREE when purchased as a bundle using ISBN 9781483344201 and provides 180 day access.Click here to see a video walk-through of the rich Interactive eBook features.Click here to view a sample chapter from the Interactive eBook.
Contents
PART I. YIPPEE! I'M IN STATISTICS1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to YouPART II. SIGMA FREUD AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words5. Ice Cream and Crime: Correlation Coefficients6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and ValidityPART III. TAKING CHANCES FOR FUN AND PROFIT7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It CountsPART IV. SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENCE: USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me10. Only the Lonely: The One-Sample z Test11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression17. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Problems You Should Know About19. A Statistical Software Sampler20. The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff21. The Ten Commandments of Data CollectionAppendix A. SPSS in Less Than 30 MinutesAppendix B. TablesAppendix C. Data SetsAppendix D. Answers to Practice QuestionsAppendix E. Math: Just the Basics
