Research Catalog

Title

Straightforward statistics with Excel / Chieh-Chen Bowen, Cleveland State University.

Author

Bowen, Chieh-Chen

Publication

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2022]

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Description

xxi, 497 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Written in an accessible and clear manner, Straightforward Statistics with Excel® 2e by Chieh-Chen Bowen helps students across the social and behavioral sciences gradually build their skills to develop a better understanding of the world around them. Each chapter purposefully connects with the previous chapter for a gradual accrual of knowledge from simple to more complex concepts. This effective, cumulative approach to statistics through logical transitions eases students into statistics and prepares them for success in more advanced quantitative coursework and their own research. The second edition now features Excel instructions and exercises throughout so students can use this widely-available and applied software for statistics"--

Subject

• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Sciences sociales > Méthodes statistiques

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction to statistics -- Summarizing, organizing data and measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- Standard z scores -- Basic principles of probability -- The central limit theorem -- Hypothesis testing -- One-sample t-test and dependent sample t-test -- Independent samples t-tests -- correlation -- Simple regression -- One-way analysis of variance -- Chi-square tests for goodness of fit and independence.

ISBN

• 9781544361963
• 1544361963
• 9781544361956 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781544361949 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781544361932 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021016119
• 99993779415

OCLC

• on1246676161
• 1246676161
• SCSB-14503133

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries