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Product: Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-mathematicians
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PLEASE BE WARNED: The Hardcover and Paperback editions mentioned above are of earlier versions of the book, dating back to the years 2000 or 1981. (Similarly, since the Kindle version is a recently updated version, most of the reader reviews shown below relate to those superseded versions.)

So;
--Why do we need Statistics?
--What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean?
--How can I learn to think statistically?
--When and why should I be wary of statistics?
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Here is a new US edition of the best-selling intro to Statistics that has been motivating and reassuring students (especially those who do not take easily to math) since 1981. (Look at their reviews on Amazon and GoodReads.) Long hailed as a classic it is written in the belief that most students will have much less trouble with statistical number-crunching if they first acquire an overview of the nature and importance of the concepts and procedures of statistics.

To this end the author teaches through conversation and a wide variety of examples, rather than through figures, formulas and the routines of calculation. His approach generates what he calls a 'tutorial in print'. He engages the reader in a joint enterprise that is more like a conversation than a lecture. As he is outlining the basic ideas of statistics and explaining the relationships between them, he is constantly asking the reader to apply them in answering questions that require them to think about what they have read since the last such question. He then gives them his comment on whatever the issue was so that readers always know whether they have understood and, if not, where and how they have gone adrift. And that feedback leads seamlessly into the next teaching point (and another question). This is the book that many students say they wish they'd read before opening the one that was set for their course!

Product: Statistics: An Introduction: Teach Yourself: The Easy Way to Learn Stats
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Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of statistics? Nearly all aspects of our lives can be subject to statistical analysis. Statistics: An Introduction shows you how to interpret, analyze and present figures.
Assuming minimal knowledge of maths and using examples from a wide variety of everyday contexts, this book makes often complex concepts and techniques easy to get to grips with. This new edition has been fully updated.
Whether you want to understand the statistics that you are bombarded with every day or are a student or professional coming to statistics from a wide range of disciplines, Statistics: An Introduction covers it all.

Product: Access Card for Interactive Labs with Chapter Highlights for: Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians by Derek Rowntree
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Product: Statistics Without Tears byRowntree
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