Beginning statistics an introduction for social scientists - Foster, Liam; Diamond, Ian; Jefferies, Julie; Diamond, Ian (Los Angeles SAGE, 2015)
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.
Revised edition of: Diamond, Ian. Beginning statistics. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-277) and index.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Statistical methods; Statistics -- Methodology