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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
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Idiot's guides: as easy as it gets! |
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Idiot's guides.
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| Summary |
Statistics is a class that is required in many college majors, and it's an increasingly popular Advanced Placement high school course. In addition to math and technical students, many business and liberal arts students are required to take it as a fundamental component of their majors. A knowledge of statistical interpretation is vital for many careers. Idiot's Guides: Statistics explains the fundamental tenets in language anyone can understand. Content includes: - Calculating descriptive statistics - Measures of central tendency: mean, median, and mode - Probability - Variance analysis - Inferential statistics - Hypothesis testing - Organizing data into statistical charts and tables. |
| Contents |
The Basics. Let's get started ; Data, data everywhere and not a drop to drink ; Displaying descriptive statistics ; Calculating descriptive statistics : measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) ; Calculating descriptive statistics : measures of dispersion -- Probability Topics. Introduction to probability ; More probability stuff ; Counting principles and probability distributions ; The binomial probability distribution ; The Poisson probability distribution ; The normal probability distribution -- Inferential Statistics. Sampling ; Sampling distributions ; Confidence intervals ; Introduction to hypothesis testing ; Hypothesis testing with one sample ; Hypothesis testing with two samples -- Advanced Inferential Statistics. The chi-square probability distribution ; Analysis of variance ; Correlation and simple regression -- Appendixes. A : Solutions to "Your Turn" ; B : Statistical tables ; C : Glossary. |
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Statistics.
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Statistics as Topic |
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Statistiques. |
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Statistique. |
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statistics. |
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Statistics |
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Statistics |
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Statistics
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Statistics.
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Statistiques.
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| Added Author |
Abdel-Raouf, Fatma, author.
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| Added Title |
Idiot's guides statistics |
| ISBN |
9781465454089 |
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146545408X |
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9781465454096 |
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1465454098 |
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9780241888155 EPUB |
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0241888158 EPUB |
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