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SAGE Publications Inc Beginning Statistics An Introduction for Social Scientists 2001 Edition by Ian Diamond, Julie Banton
`The clarity, simplicity and use of many practical examples makes this book very useful, primarily for under- and postgraduate students' - Journal of Biosocial ScienceWith an emphasis on description, examples, graphs and displays rather than statistical formulae, this book is the ideal introductory guide for students across the social sciences. It shows how all students can understand the basic ideas of statistics at a level appropriate with being a good social scientist. The authors explain the right ways to present data, how to describe a set of data using summary statistics and how to infer what is going on in a population when all you have to go on is the sample. The book uses small data sets to help students understand the basic principles, and no mathematics or statistical background is assumed. Table of contents :- Are Statistics Relevant to Real Life?Data and Table MannersPretty GraphsAverages and PercentilesSpreadsTransforming DataThe Normal DistributionFrom Samples to PopulationsGetting ConfidentFun with ProportionsHow to Decide How to DecideMore Tricky DecisionsCorrelation and RegressionAnalyzing Tables