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Your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation with this concise book. Actual data is used to illustrate various ways of deriving meaning from data with descriptive statistics. This book has been thoroughly field-tested for student comprehension.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 2: Percentages and Bar Graphs
Chapter 3: Shapes of Distributions
Chapter 4: The Mean: The Most Popular Average
Chapter 5: The Median and Mode: Alternatives to the Mean
Chapter 6: The Standard Deviation: First Cousin of the Mean
Chapter 7: The Range, Quartiles, and Interquartile Range
Chapter 8: Standard Scores
Chapter 9: Scattergrams and the Pearson r
Chapter 10: The Coefficient of Determination
Chapter 11: Linear Regression
Chapter 12: Glossary of Descriptive Statistics
Appendix A: Formula for the Interpolated Median
Appendix B: Computational Formula for the Standard Deviation
Appendix C: Computational Formula for the Pearson r
Index
About the author
Zealure Holcomb
Summary
Your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation with this concise book. Actual data is used to illustrate various ways of deriving meaning from data with descriptive statistics. This book has been thoroughly field-tested for student comprehension.
