Statistics: difficult concept, understandable explanation. /
Dale E Mattson
- Chicago: Oak Park, 1986,
- xiii, 482 p.: ill.; 20cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Descriptive statistics: Scope and content of statistics -- Presentation of data -- Summary statistics -- Rationale of inferential statistics: Probability -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Appliaction of inferential statistics: Two sample experiments -- Comparisons of population pions using chi-square -- Significance tests for variances and F distributions -- Comparison of several means -- Correlation and regression -- Analysis of covariance -- Nonparametric statistics -- Study design and interpretation of results -- Appendixes A: Public health data and analyses -- B: Answers to exercises -- C: Comprehensive example of hypothesis testing -- D: Important formulas appearing in text -- Useful tables.