Title: How to think about statistics /
Authors: Phillips, John L., 1923-
Publisher: W.H. Freeman,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Social sciences Statistical methods; Statistics
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Contents: Introduction: Task -- Basic ideas -- Description of Data versus Inference to Population -- Facing Mathphobia -- Frequency Distributions: Normal Distributions -- Grouped-Frequency Distributions and the Meanings of Scores -- Skewed Distributions -- Other configurations -- Summary -- Measures of Central Tendency: Mean -- Median (Mdn) -- Mode -- Summary -- Sample applications -- Measures of Variability: Standard Deviation -- Interquartile Range (IQR) -- Range -- Summary -- Sample applications -- Interpreting Individual Measures: Standard Scores: z Scale -- Other Standard Scores -- Centile (or Percentile) Scores -- Age and Grade Norms -- Summary -- Sample applications -- Correlation: Rank-Difference Coefficient (p) -- Product-Moment Coefficient (r) -- Effect of Restricted Variability -- Standard Scores in Correlation -- Matrix of Correlations -- Expectancy Tables and Predictive Validity -- Reliability and Validity -- Summary -- Sample applications --^