Page 7 - Statistics for Dummies

Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Vital Statistics about Statistics .......................... 7
Chapter 1: Statistics in a Nutshell ....................................................................................9
Chapter 2: The Statistics of Everyday Life ...................................................................23
Chapter 3: Taking Control: So Many Numbers, So Little Time ..................................33
Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade ........................................................................................43
Part II: Number-Crunching Basics ............................... 65
Chapter 5: Means, Medians, and More ..........................................................................67
Chapter 6: Getting the Picture: Graphing Categorical Data .......................................91
Chapter 7: Going by the Numbers: Graphing Numerical Data .................................103
Part III: Distributions and the
Central Limit Theorem .............................................. 129
Chapter 8: Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution ..................................131
Chapter 9: The Normal Distribution............................................................................143
Chapter 10: The t-Distribution .....................................................................................157
Chapter 11: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem ......................163
Part IV: Guesstimating and Hypothesizing
with Confidence ....................................................... 179
Chapter 12: Leaving Room for a Margin of Error .......................................................181
Chapter 13: Confidence Intervals: Making Your Best Guesstimate .........................193

Chapter 14: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions ..............................................................215
Chapter 15: Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas and Examples .............227

Part V: Statistical Studies and the Hunt
for a Meaningful Relationship .................................. 243
Chapter 16: Polls, Polls, and More Polls .....................................................................245
Chapter 17: Experiments: Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results? ...........261
Chapter 18: Looking for Links: Correlation and Regression ....................................279
Chapter 19: Two-Way Tables and Independence ......................................................295

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