Test Bank: Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R, Neil J. Salkind, Leslie A. Shaw, ISBN: 9781544324579
Table Of Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Digital Resources
PART I • YIPPEE! I’M IN STATISTICS
Chapter 1 • Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You
PART II • WELCOME TO THE INTERESTING, USEFUL, FLEXIBLE, FUN, AND (VERY) DEEP WORLDS OF R AND RSTUDIO
Chapter 2 • Here’s Why We Love R and How to Get Started
Chapter 3 • Using RStudio: Much Easier Than You Think
PART III • SIGMA FREUD AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Chapter 4 • Computing and Understanding Averages: Means to an End
Chapter 5 • Understanding Variability: Vive la Différence
Chapter 6 • Creating Graphs: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words
Chapter 7 • Computing Correlation Coefficients: Ice Cream and Crime
Chapter 8 • An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity: Just the Truth
PART IV • TAKING CHANCES FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Chapter 9 • Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
Chapter 10 • Probability and Why It Counts: Fun With a Bell-Shaped Curve
PART V • SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT: USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Chapter 11 • Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me
Chapter 12 • The One-Sample z Test: Only the Lonely
Chapter 13 • t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
Chapter 14 • t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
Chapter 15 • Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
Chapter 16 • Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction
Chapter 17 • Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient: Cousins or Just Good Friends?
Chapter 18 • Using Linear Regression: Predicting the Future
PART VI • MORE STATISTICS! MORE TOOLS! MORE FUN!
Chapter 19 • Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests: What to Do When You’re Not Normal
Chapter 20 • Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
Appendix A: More Fun Stuff With R and RStudio
Appendix B: Tables
Appendix C: Data Sets
Appendix D: Answers to Practice Questions
Appendix E: Math: Just the Basics
Appendix F: The 10 (or More) Best (and Most Fun) Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
Appendix G: The 10 Commandments of Data Collection
Appendix H: Glossary
Appendix I: The Reward
Index



