TY - BOOK AU - Salkind, Neil J. TI - Statitics for people who (think they) hate statistics SN - 9781452225234 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - Statistics N1 - 1.A note to the student : why I wrote this book -- 2.Yippee! : I'm in statistics -- 3.Statistics or sadistics? : it's up to you -- 4.All you need to know about formulas and functions -- 5.Sigma Freud and descriptive statistics -- 6.Computing and understanding averages : means to an end -- 7.Vive la difference : understanding variability -- 8.A picture really is worth a thousand words -- 9.Ice cream and crime : computing correlation coefficients -- 10.Just the truth : an introduction to understanding reliability and validity -- 11.Taking chances for fun and profit -- 12.Hypotheticals and you : testing your questions -- 13.Are your curves normal? : probability and why it counts -- 14.Significantly different: using inferential statistics -- 15.Significantly significant : what it means for you and me -- 16.Only the lonely -- 17.T(ea) for two (again) : tests between the means of related groups -- 18.Two groups too many? : try analysis of variance -- 19.Two too many factors : factorial analysis of variance : a brief introduction -- 20.Cousins or just good friends? : testing relationships using the correlation coefficient -- 21.Predicting who'll win the super bowl : using linear regression -- 22.What to do when you're not normal : chi-square and some other nonparametric tests -- 23.Some other (important) statistical procedures you should know about -- 24.A statistical software sampler -- 25.Things you?ll want to know and remember -- 26.The ten (or more) best (and most fun) internet sites for statistics stuff -- 27.The ten commandments of data collection -- Appendix A: Excel-erate your learning : all you need to know about excel -- Appendix B: Tables -- Appendix C: The data sets -- Appendix D: The reward : the brownie recipe ER -