TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rumsey,Deborah J.
TI  - Statistics for dummies
T2  - --For dummies
SN  - 9780470911082 (pbk.)
AV  - HA29 .R84 2011
U1  - 519.5 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Sears
N1  - Includes index; Statistics in a nutshell -- The statistics of everyday life -- Taking control: so many numbers, so little time -- Tools of the trade -- Means, medians, and more -- Getting the picture: graphing categorical data -- Going by the numbers: graphing numerical data -- Random variables and the binomial distribution -- The normal distribution -- The t-distribution -- Sampling distributions and the central limit theorem -- Leaving room for a margin of error -- Confidence intervals: making your best guesstimate -- Claims, tests, and conclusions -- Commonly used hypothesis tests: formulas and examples -- Polls, polls, and more polls -- Experiments: medical breakthroughs or misleading results? -- Looking for links: correlation and regression -- Two-way tables and independence
N2  - This guide shows you how to collect, graph, and critique data; decipher distributions; calculate confidence intervals and hypothesis tests; analyze data with correlation, regression, and two-way tables; and much more
ER  -