Foster, Liam,

Beginning statistics : an introduction for social scientists / - 2nd ed. - Los Angeles : Sage Publications Ltd. c2015 - xxii, 280 pages : Illustrations ;

Previous edition: 2001.
Includes index.

Are statistics relevant to real life? -- Data and table manners -- Graphs and charts -- Averages and percentiles -- Spreads -- Transforming data -- The normal distribution -- From samples to populations -- Getting confident -- Fun with proportions -- How to decide how to decide -- More tricky decisions -- Correlation and regression -- Analysing tables with categorical data -- Conclusion -- Statistical tables -- Answers to practice questions -- Algebra and mathematical notation explained.

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Social sciences - statistical methods
Statistics - methodology
Social sciences
Statistics

HA 29 / FOS