ABSTRACT

First Published in 2017. In this book Dr. Laurie Graham Dodge shares some important fundamnetals of introductory statistics. At its core, statistics is a branch of mathematics. It's a collection of tools that help us organize and make sense of information. Unfortunately, most tools are interesting only if we have an interesting use for them. One of the authors’ major goals in writing this book is to provide you with interesting examples that illustrate many of the important uses of statistics.

chapter 1|20 pages

To Know Statistics Is to Love Statistics

chapter 2|24 pages

The Picture of Data

chapter 3|16 pages

The Road to Mediocrity: The 3 Ms

chapter 4|16 pages

Percentile Ranks: Where Am I in the Pile?

chapter 6|16 pages

The Standard Deviation: How Deviant Am I?

chapter 10|20 pages

Correlation: Are We Related?

chapter 12|20 pages

Expected vs. Observed: Chi-Square

chapter 15|12 pages

Another t Party: t Test for Dependent Means

part |2 pages

A. A Closer Look at the History of Statistics

chapter |4 pages

B. A Closer Look at Sampling

chapter C|4 pages

An Introduction to Sample Size

part |2 pages

D. Confidence Interval for the Mean: Small Samples

chapter |6 pages

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