TY - BOOK AU - Salkind,Neil J. TI - Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics SN - 9781412951494 (cloth) PY - 2008/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Statistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Statistics of sadistics? It's up to you -- Means to an end: computing and understanding averages -- Vive la difference: understanding variability -- A picture really is worth a thousand words -- Ice cream and crime: computing correlation coefficients -- Just the truth: an introduction to understanding reliability and validity -- Hypotheticals and you: testing your questions -- Are your curves normal? Probability and why it counts -- Significantly significant: what it means for you and me -- t(ea) for two: tests between the means of different groups -- t(ea) for two (again): tests between the means of related groups -- Two groups too many? Try analysis of variance -- Two too many factors: factorial analysis of variance -- Cousins or just good friends? Testing relationships using the correlation coefficient -- Predicting who'll win the Super Bowl: using linear regression -- What to do when you're not normal: chi-square and some other nonparametric tests -- Some other (important) statistical procedures you should know about -- A statistical software sampler -- The ten (or more) best Internet sites for statistics stuff -- The ten commandments of data collection -- Glossary UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005882.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007005882-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007005882-d.html ER -