Statistics without tears : (Record no. 42255)
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| fixed length control field | 01847 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780140136326 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519 |
| Item number | ROW |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rowntree, Derek |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Statistics without tears : |
| Remainder of title | an introduction for non-mathematicians |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Penguin Books India (P) Ltd. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2000 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 195,xp. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Introduction 9<br/>How to use this book 10<br/>1.Statistical inquiry 13<br/>Making sense of experience 14 <br/>What is statistics? 17 <br/>Descriptive and inferential statistics 19 <br/>Collecting a sample 23<br/>2.Describing our sample 28<br/>Statistical variables 28<br/>Error, accuracy and approximations 35<br/>3.Summarizing our data 38<br/>Tables and diagrams 38 Central tendency {averages) 48 <br/>Measures of dispersion 50<br/>4.The shape of a distribution 57<br/>Skewed distributions 58 Introducing the normal distribution 64 <br/>Proportions under the normal curve 72 <br/>Comparing values 79<br/>5.From sample to population 82<br/>Estimates and inferences 82 <br/>The logic of sampling 86 <br/>A distribution of sample-means 87 <br/>Estimating the population-mean 94 <br/>Estimating other parameters 99<br/>6.Comparing samples 102<br/>From the same or different populations 102<br/>Significance testing 107 <br/>The significance of significance 116 <br/>Comparing dispersions 122 <br/>Non-parametric methods 124<br/>7.Further matters of significance 128<br/>One- versus two-tailed tests 129 <br/>z-tests and t-tests 139 <br/>Comparing several means 141 <br/>Comparing proportions 15O<br/>8.Analysing relationships 156<br/>Paired values 156<br/>Three kinds of correlation 160<br/>The strength of a correlation 161<br/>The significance of a correlation coefficient 164<br/>Interpreting a correlation coefficient 169<br/>Prediction and regression 176<br/>Postscript 185<br/>Review 186 Caution 188<br/>Further Reading 191<br/>Index 193<br/><br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 44633 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FT |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Technology | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 17/11/2015 | amazon.in | 790.00 | 9 | 1 | 519 ROW | 014655 | 12/06/2023 | 23/03/2023 | 790.00 | 19/10/2015 | Book |