Research Catalog

Title

Seeing through statistics / Jessica M. Utts.

Author

Utts, Jessica M., 1951-

Publication

Belmont, CA : Thomson, Brooks/Cole, [2005], ©2005.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

xxiv, 560 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

Subject

• Statistics
• Statistiques

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The benefits and risks of using statistics -- Reading the news -- Measurements, mistakes, and misunderstandings -- How to get a good sample -- Experiments and observational studies -- Getting the big picture -- Summarizing and displaying measurement data -- Bell-shaped curves and other shapes -- Plots, graphs, and pictures -- Relationships between measurement variables -- Relationships can be deceiving -- Relationships between categorical variables -- Statistical significance for 2 x 2 tables -- Reading the economic news -- Understanding and reporting trends over time -- Understanding probability and long-term expectations -- Psychological influences on personal probability -- When intuition differs from relative frequency -- The diversity of samples from the same population -- Estimating proportions with confidence -- The role of confidence intervals in research -- Rejecting chance - testing hypotheses in research -- Hypothesis testing : examples and case studies -- Significance, importance, and undetected differences -- Meta-analysis : resolving inconsistencies across studies -- Ethics in statistical studies -- Putting what you have learned to the test.

ISBN

• 0534394027
• 9780534394028
• 9781285733135

LCCN

2004100932

OCLC

• ocm56568530
• SCSB-14143049

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries