In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. Chapters address the following questions:

Why bother learning statistics in the first place and are they relevant to real life?
How do I make sensible tables and informative graphs?
What are descriptive and inferential statistics and how are they used?
What are regression and correlation anyway?

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Information

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

2014

ISBN

9781473909229

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Social Science Research & Methodology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover Page
Halftitle
Advertisement
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Permissions
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction – Are Statistics Relevant to Real Life?
2 Data and Table Manners
3 Graphs and Charts
4 Averages and Percentiles
5 Spreads
6 Transforming Data
7 The Normal Distribution
8 From Samples to Populations
9 Getting Confident
10 Fun with Proportions
11 How to Decide How to Decide
12 More Tricky Decisions
13 Correlation and Regression
14 Analysing Tables with Categorical Data
15 Conclusion
Appendix 1 Statistical Tables
Appendix 2 Answers to Practice Questions
Appendix 3 Algebra and Mathematical Notation Explained
Glossary
References
Index