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| Imprint: | Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2002. |
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| Description: | 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 583 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4710382 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Yipee! I'm in Statistics
- 1. Statistics or Sadistics: It's up to You
- II. Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics
- 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages
- 3. Vive la Difference: Understanding Variability
- 4. A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words
- 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients
- 6. Predicting Who'll Win the Superbowl: Using Linear Regression
- III. Taking Chances for Fun and Profit
- 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
- 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why it Counts
- IV. Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics
- 9. Significantly Significant: What it Means for You and Me
- 10. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
- 11. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
- 12. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
- 13. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships using the Correlation Coefficient
- 14. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests
- 15. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
- 16. A Statistical Software Sampler
- V. Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember
- 17. The Ten Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
- 18. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
- 9. Ten Question Practice Tests
- Appendix A. SPSS in Less Than 30 Minutes
- Appendix B. Tables
- Appendix C. Data Sets
- Glossary
- Index