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Making Everything Easier! ™ 2nd Edition

2nd Edition
The easy way to
Open the book and find:
get down with statistics
• Plain-English explanations
Stymied by statistics? Fear not! In easy-to-understand terms, of statistical jargon
this friendly guide shows you how to collect, graph, and Statistics
• Information on organizing,
critique data; decipher distributions; calculate confidence graphing, and critiquing data
intervals and hypothesis tests; analyze data with correlation,
• The 411 on random variables;
regression, and two-way tables; and much more.
the binomial, normal, t-, and
sampling distributions; and the
• The world of statistics — get a handle on the quantity and
Central Limit Theorem Statistics
quality of statistics you encounter in everyday life
• Pointers for conducting,
• Get the big picture — explore data using graphs and charts
interpreting, and critiquing
and describe data using means, medians, standard scores,
polls and experiments
percentiles, and more
• Data analysis tools for regression,
• Results may vary — understand common statistical distributions
confidence intervals, hypothesis
and find out how to work with random variables, standard error,
tests, and two-way tables
the Central Limit Theorem, and more
• Plenty of examples and figures
• Guesstimate with confidence — use standard error, confidence
to illustrate important concepts
intervals, and hypothesis tests to make conclusions about a
and methods
population
• Dig into statistical studies and their analyses — get the scoop
on polls, experiments, correlation, linear regression, two-way
tables, and independence Learn to:
• Grasp statistical ideas, techniques, formulas,
Go to Dummies.com ® and calculations
for videos, step-by-step examples,
how-to articles, or to shop! • Interpret and critique graphs and charts,
determine probability, and work with
confidence intervals

• Critique and analyze data from polls
and experiments

$19.99 US / $23.99 CN / £14.99 UK
ISBN 978-0-470-91108-2
Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a professor of statistics and the director of the
Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at The Ohio State University. She
is the author of Statistics Workbook For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, and Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD
Probability For Dummies.
Rumsey Professor of Statistics, The Ohio State University