Statistics without tears : an introduction for non-mathematicians
- London : Penguin Books, 2018
- vi, 199 p. ; ill., 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge, and teaches through words and diagrams rather than through figures, formulae and equations - providing the perfect approach for the non-mathematical reader. Written as a "tutorial in print", Derek Rowntree includes questions in his argument; readers can answer them as they go, enabling them to measure their performance and judge how far they have mastered the subject.
9780141987491
Statistics Mathematical statistics Alternative hypothesis Block diagrams Category variables Discrete variables Frequency distributions Grouped frequency-distribution Inter-quartile range Null hypothesis One-tailed test Quantity-variable Raw data Regression Sampling variation t-test Z-test