Statistics for non-statisticians

✍ Scribed by Birger Madsen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book was written for those who need to know how to collect, analyze and present data. It is meant to be a first course for practitioners, a book for private study or brush-up on statistics, and supplementary reading for general statistics classes.
The book is untraditional, both with respect to the choice of topics and the presentation.
The topics were determined by what is most useful for practical statistical work: even experienced statisticians will find new topics or new approaches to traditional topics.
The presentation is as non-mathematical as possible. Mathematical formulae are presented only if they are necessary for calculations and/or add to readers’ understanding. A sample survey is developed as a realistic example throughout the book, and many further examples are presented, which also use data spreadsheets from a supplementary website.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Data Collection....Pages 1-12
Presentation of Data....Pages 13-23
Description of Data....Pages 25-42
The Normal Distribution....Pages 43-69
Analysis of Qualitative Data....Pages 71-93
Error Sources and Planning....Pages 95-109
Assessment of Relationship....Pages 111-120
Comparing Two Groups....Pages 121-131
Appendices....Pages 133-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-160

✦ Subjects

Statistics, general; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law