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Statistics without tears : a primer for non-mathematicians / Derek Rowntree.

By: Rowntree, Derek.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin, 1981 (2000[printing])Description: 195 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140136320; 9780140136326.Subject(s): Statistics | Popular Science and Nature | Mathematics | Probability & statisticsDDC classification: 519.5 ROW Summary: This text assumes no expert knowledge, teaching non-mathematical readers, through words and diagrams, how statistics works. It is written as a tutorial including questions enabling readers to judge their mastery of the subject.
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Reprint with corrections and new further reading.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text assumes no expert knowledge, teaching non-mathematical readers, through words and diagrams, how statistics works. It is written as a tutorial including questions enabling readers to judge their mastery of the subject.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Book
  • 1 Statistical Inquiry
  • Making Sense of Experience
  • What is Statistics?
  • Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
  • Collecting a Sample
  • 2 Describing our Sample
  • Statistical Variables
  • Error, Accuracy, and Approximations
  • 3 Summarizing our Data
  • Tables and Diagrams
  • Central Tendency (Averages). Measures of Dispersion
  • 4 The Shape of a Distribution
  • Skewed Distributions
  • Introducing the Normal Distribution
  • Proportions Under the Normal Curve
  • Comparing Values
  • 4 From Sample to Population
  • Estimates and Inferences
  • The Logic of Sampling
  • A Distribution of Sample-Means
  • Estimating the Population-Mean
  • Estimating Other Parameters
  • 5 Comparing Samples
  • From the Same or Different Populations?
  • Significance Testing
  • The Significance of Significance
  • Comparing Dispersions
  • Non-Parametric Methods
  • 6 Further Matters of Significance
  • One- Versus Two-Tailed Tests
  • Z-Tests and T-Tests
  • Comparing Several Means
  • Comparing Proportions
  • 7 Analyzing Relationships
  • Paired Values
  • Three Kinds of Correlation
  • The Strength of a Correlation
  • The Significance of a Correlation Coefficient
  • Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient
  • Prediction and Regression
  • Postscript
  • Review
  • Caution

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Derek Rowntree has spent most of his working life in higher education. In 1969 he was appointed as one of the founding members of the Open University and played his part in developing new kinds of teaching to meet the challenges posed by the innovatory concept of 'open learning and distance education'. 30 years later, having stayed long enough to help a generation of academics learn how to teach and assess students they might never meet and, finally, to develop the first online courses, he retired as Professor of Educational Development.