Starting Statistics
Subtitle: a Short, Clear Guide
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781446200322; 9781283289368
Subjects: Social Science
Description: Statistics: A Short, Clear Guide is an accessible, humorous and easy introduction to statistics for social science students. In this refreshing book, experienced author and academic Neil Burdess shows that statistics are not the result of some mysterious black magic", but rather the result of some very basic arithmetic. Getting rid of confusing x's and y's, he shows that it's the intellectual questions that come before and after the calculations that are important: (i) What are the best statistics to use with your data? and (ii) What do the calculated statistics tell you? Statistics: A Sh.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; Contents; Part One; title: Measurement; 1 Introducing measurement; 2 Measuring numbers; 3 Measuring categories; Part Two; title: Standardisation; 4 Introducing standardisation; 5 Standardising categories; 6 Standardising numbers; Part Three; title: Correlations; 7 Introducing correlations; 8 Correlations between categories; 9 Correlations between numbers; Part Four; title: Sampling and estimation; 10 Introducing sampling; 11 Estimating numbers; 12 Estimating categories; Part Five; title: Hypothesis testing; 13 Introducing hypothesis testing; 14 Hypotheses about categories; 15 Hypotheses about numbers.; title: 16 Hypotheses about categories and numbersReferences; Index.