Making sense of statistics : a non-mathematical approach / Michael Wood.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: Statistics, Non-mathematical Methods and How to Use this Book; 2 Probability, Samples, Buckets and Balls; 3 Summing Things up: Graphs, Averages, Standard Deviations, Correlations and so on; 4 Why Use Statistics? Pros, Cons and Alternatives; 5 Calculating Probabilities: Mental Ball Crunching and Computer Games; 6 Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How can we Decide What's True?; 7 How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals; 8 Checking if Anything is Going on: Tests of Null Hypotheses.

This text provides a thorough but accessible introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. Guidance is provided on how to design investigations, analyse data and interpret results.