Statistics Demystified

A Self-teaching Guide

Stan Gibilisco

336 pages, parution le 01/07/2004

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Résumé

Increase your odds of learning statistics

Now anyone with an interest in mastering statistics can do so -- without formal training, unlimited time, or a private tutor. In Statistics Demystified, best-selling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective, anxiety-soothing, and totally painless way to learn or review statistics fundamentals.

With Statistics Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers problems at the end of each chapter and part to help expose potential weaknesses, and a 100-question final exam to reinforce what you learned.

If you want to build or refresh your understanding of statistics, heres a fast and entertaining self-teaching course thats specially designed to reduce anxiety. Get ready to:

Absorb statistics jargon and notation
Figure odds in games of chance and other situations using probability principles
Understand randomness and uncertainty
Discover the right ways to obtain data and mine it for meaning
Create and interpret tables and graphs
Take a final exam and grade it yourself!

Statistics Demystified is a great springboard for more- advanced and more-specific statistics courses and subjects. Let it be your direct route to learning or brushing up on this essential topic.

Sommaire

Part one: it's all in the data
- Notation and Jargon
- How Data is Described
- Creating and Interpreting Tables
- Creating and Interpreting Graphs
- Test: Part One
Part two: taking your chances
- Randomness and Uncertainty
- Probability Principles
- Discrete Distributions
- Continuous Distributions
- Test: Part Two
Part three: getting it right
- Obtaining Data
- Interpreting Data
- Correlation, Causation, and Prediction
- Special Procedures
- Test: Part Three
- Final Exam
- Answers to Quiz, Test, and Exam Questions

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Stan Gibilisco
Parution	01/07/2004
Nb. de pages	336
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	605g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071431187
ISBN13	978-0-07-143118-7