INCREASE YOUR ODDS OF LEARNING STATISTICSNow 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, here's a fast and entertaining self-teaching course that's 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.
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: STATISTICAL CONCEPTS
Chapter 1: Background Math
Chapter 2: Learning the Jargon
Chapter 3: Basics of Probability
Chapter 4: Descriptive Measures
Test: Part One
PART 2: STATISTICS IN ACTION
Chapter 5: Sampling and Estimation
Chapter 6: Hypotheses, Prediction, and Regression
Chapter 7: Correlation, Causation, Order, and Chaos
Chapter 8: Some Practical Problems
Test: Part Two
Final Exam
Answers to Quiz, Test, and Exam Questions
Suggested Additional References
Index
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