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Essential Statistics

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ISBN-10: 0130994227

ISBN-13: 9780130994226

Edition: 2005

Authors: J. H. Wilson

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List price: $186.65
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Introduction
Welcome to Statistics
Building competence
Rationale for learning statistics
Math
Proportion and percent
Rounding
Symbols
APA style
Conducting research
Experiments
Correlations
The usefulness of correlations
How to pick a sample
Analyzing data using SPSS
Preview of Chapter 2
Conceptual Items
Application Items
Descriptive Statistics
Variables and Graphing
Measurement scales
Nominal variables
Ordinal variables
Interval variables
Ratio variables
Special case of rating scales
Qualitative vs. quantitative variables
Discrete vs. continuous variables
Picturing data: Simple frequency tables and graphs
Nominal and ordinal data
Discrete interval and ratio data
Continuous interval and ratio data
Grouped frequency distributions
Shapes of distributions
Normal distributions
Skewed distributions
Kurtosis
Bimodal and trimodal distributions
Preview of Chapter 3
Conceptual Items
Application Items
Measures of Central Tendency
Summarizing data
Mode
Median
Mean
Mean vs. median
Introduction to SPSS
Measures of central tendency on SPSS
Summarizing experiments using means
Graphing means
Graphing means on SPSS
Preview of Chapter 4
Conceptual Items
Application Items
Computational formula in this chapter
Measures of Variability
Spread of scores
Range
Sample variance
Sample standard deviation
Estimated population standard deviation
Estimated population variance
Measures of variability on SPSS
Graphing sample standard deviation
Graphs of standard deviation on SPSS
Preview of Chapte