1st Edition

Fundamentals of Descriptive Statistics

By Zealure Holcomb Copyright 1998
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

• Do your students need to organize and summarize data for term projects? Will they need to perform these tasks on the job? This book gives them thorough preparation. • In twelve short chapters, your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation. • Actual data on the emotional health of foster-care adolescents are used throughout the... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistics

Chapter 2: Percentages and Bar Graphs

Chapter 3: Shapes of Distributions

Chapter 4: The Mean: The Most Popular Average

Chapter 5: The Median and Mode: Alternatives to the Mean

Chapter 6: The Standard Deviation: First Cousin of the Mean

Chapter 7: The Range, Quartiles, and Interquartile Range

Chapter 8: Standard Scores

Chapter 9: Scattergrams and the Pearson r

Chapter 10: The Coefficient of Determination

Chapter 11: Linear Regression

Chapter 12: Glossary of Descriptive Statistics

Appendix A: Formula for the Interpolated Median

Appendix B: Computational Formula for the Standard Deviation

Appendix C: Computational Formula for the Pearson r

Index

Biography

Zealure Holcomb