Statistics Essentials For Dummies

Deborah J. Rumsey

John Wiley & Sons, May 14, 2019 - Mathematics - 192 pages

Statistics Essentials For Dummies (9781119590309) was previously published as Statistics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618394). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

Statistics Essentials For Dummies not only provides students enrolled in Statistics I with an excellent high-level overview of key concepts, but it also serves as a reference or refresher for students in upper-level statistics courses. Free of review and ramp-up material, Statistics Essentials For Dummies sticks to the point, with content focused on key course topics only. It provides discrete explanations of essential concepts taught in a typical first semester college-level statistics course, from odds and error margins to confidence intervals and conclusions. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical statistics concepts as they help high school students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom who just need a refresher of the core concepts.

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User Review  - Katya0133 - LibraryThing

This is a very solid introduction to statistics. The book focuses as much on interpreting statistics presented by others (researchers, news media, salespeople, etc.) as it does on introducing the reader to conducting their own basic statistical research.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Statistics in a Nutshell: 5
• Descriptive Statistics: 13
• The FiveNumber Summary: 21
• Charts and Graphs: 23
• The Binomial Distribution: 35
• The Normal Distribution: 45
• Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem: 55
• Finding Probabilities for X: 62
• Confidence Intervals: 69
• statistics Essentials For Dummies: 76
• Hypothesis Tests: 87
• The tDistribution: 107
• Correlation and Regression: 113
• The tDistribution 107 CHAPTER 10 Correlation and Regression 113 CHAPTER 11 TwoWay Tables: 127
• A Checklist for Samples and Surveys: 137
• A Checklist for Judging Experiments: 147
• Ten Common Statistical Mistakes: 155
• TABLES FOR REFERENCE: 163
• A Checklist for Samples and Surveys 137 CHAPTER 13 A Checklist for Judging Experiments 147 CHAPTER 14 Ten Common Statistical Mistakes 1...: 171

About the author

Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is an Auxiliary Professor and Statistics Education Specialist at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Statistics For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, Statistics Workbook For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Statistics Essentials For Dummies
• Author: Deborah J. Rumsey
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2019
• ISBN: 1119590302, 9781119590309
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Education / Statistics; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / Stochastic Processes