Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- 1. Why do we need statistics? -- 2. Measures of central tendency -- 3. Measures of dispersion -- 4. The normal distribution -- 5. Probability -- 6. What are statistical tests all about? -- 7. Hypotheses -- 8. Significance -- 9. Simple statistical tests -- 10. What's in a number -- 11. Two parametric tests -- 12. Tests of goodness of fit -- 13. The design of experiments -- 14. Sampling -- 15. Correlation -- 16. In the last analysis -- 17. Operation schedules -- Answers to exercises -- Appendix -- Index
Summary
Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography
