TY - BOOK AU - Mattson, Dale E. TI - Statistics: difficult concept, understandable explanation. SN - 0865160562 AV - QA 276.12.M37 PY - 1986///, CY - Chicago PB - Oak Park KW - Statistics. KW - Medical statistics. N1 - 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 ER -