Wood, Michael. <br/><br/>
Making sense of statistics :   a non-mathematical approach / 
Michael Wood. 
 - Basingstoke :   Palgrave Macmillan,  2003. 
 - xv, 209 pages:  ill.;  22cm. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781403901071 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Statistics<br/>Probability
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HA35   / W66 2003 da