Making Sense of Statistics - Wood, Michael

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Résumé :

Introduction: Statistics, Non-mathematical Methods and How to Use this Book
Probability, Samples, Buckets and Balls
Summing Things Up: Graphs, Averages, Standard Deviations, Correlations and so on
Why Use Statistics? Pros, Cons and Alternatives
Calculating Probabilities: Mental Ball Crunching and Computer Games
Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How Can We Decide What's True?
How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals
Checking if Anything is Going On: Tests of Null Hypotheses
Predicting the Unpredictable, or Explaining the Inexplicable: Regression Models
How to Do It and What Does It Mean? The Design and Interpretation of Investigations
Appendix A: Using Spreadsheets (Excel) for Statistics
Appendix B: A Brief Guide to the Statistical Package, SPSS
Appendix C: Data and Program Files for Downloading
Appendix D: Comments on Some of the Exercises
Notes
References
Index.