Description
Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD is a longtime statistics professor at The Ohio State University specializing in statistics education. She authored Statistics For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies. Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Off to a Statistically Significant Start 5 Chapter 1: Summarizing Categorical Data: Counts and Percents 7 Chapter 2: Summarizing Quantitative Data: Means, Medians, and More 17 Chapter 3: Organizing Categorical Data: Charts and Graphs 27 Chapter 4: Organizing Quantitative Data: Charts and Graphs 43 Part 2: Probability, Distributions, and the Central Limit Theorem (Are You Having Fun Yet?) 73 Chapter 5: Understanding Probability Basics 75 Chapter 6: Measures of Relative Standing and the Normal Distribution 83 Chapter 7: The Binomial Distribution 105 Chapter 8: The t-Distribution 117 Chapter 9: Demystifying Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem 123 Part 3: Guesstimating and Hypothesizing with Confidence 137 Chapter 10: Making Sense of Margin of Error 139 Chapter 11: Calculating Confidence Intervals 151 Chapter 12: Deciphering Your Confidence Interval 169 Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses 177 Chapter 14: Taking the Guesswork Out of p-Values and Type I and II Errors 197 Part 4: Statistical Studies and the Hunt for a Meaningful Relationship 211 Chapter 15: Examining Polls and Surveys 213 Chapter 16: Evaluating Experiments 223 Chapter 17: Looking for Links in Categorical Data: Two-Way Tables 233 Chapter 18: Searching for Links in Quantitative Data: Correlation and Regression 259 Part 5: The Part of Tens 277 Chapter 19: Math Review: Ten Steps to a Better Grade 279 Chapter 20: Top Ten Statistical Formulas 289 Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Spot Common Statistical Mistakes 301 Appendix: Tables for Reference 309 Index 319
