1st Edition

Dr. Laurie's Introduction to Statistical Methods

By Laurie Grahm Dodge Copyright 2003
    309 Pages
    by Routledge

    309 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2017. In this book Dr. Laurie Graham Dodge shares some important fundamnetals of introductory statistics. At its core, statistics is a branch of mathematics. It's a collection of tools that help us organize and make sense of information. Unfortunately, most tools are interesting only if we have an interesting use for them. One of the authors’ major goals in writing this book is to provide you with interesting examples that illustrate many of the important uses of statistics.

    Introduction 1. To Know Statistics Is to Love Statistics 2. The Picture of Data 3. The Road to Mediocrity: The 3 Ms 4. Percentile Ranks: Where Am I in the Pile? 5. Percentiles and Quartiles: Getting the Big Picture 6. The Standard Deviation: How Deviant Am I? 7. Standard Scores: The Story of z and Its Cousins 8. Bellville: Living in the Bell-Shaped Community 9. From Here to There: Probability, Hypothesis Testing, and Sampling 10. Correlation: Are We Related? 11. Relationships and Differences: Effect Size and Practical Significance 12. Expected vs. Observed: Chi-Square 13. Getting Ready for the t Party: Standard Error of the Mean 14. Two for Tea and t for Two: t Test for Independent Groups 15. Another t Party: t Test for Dependent Means 16. It's My Way or the Highway: Introduction to 17. Putting the Pieces Together: An Introduction Meta-Analysis

    Biography

    Laurie Grahm Dodge