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Study Guide to Accompany Salkind and Frey's Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
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Study Guide to Accompany Salkind and Frey's Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Seventh Edition (Updated Edition)


August 2019 | 160 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This Student Study Guide includes chapter outlines, chapter summaries, learning objectives, key terms, true/false, short answer and essay questions. Exercises are also included for students to test and apply their knowledge. Answers to all questions are also included. The Study Guide for the Seventh Edition matches the organization of the current Salkind and Frey text.
 
Chapter 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You
 
Chapter 2. Computing and Understanding Averages: Means to an End
 
Chapter 3. Understanding Variability: Vivé la Différence
 
Chapter 4. Creating Graphs: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words
 
Chapter 5. Computing Correlation Coefficients: Ice Cream and Crime
 
Chapter 6. An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity: Just the Truth
 
Chapter 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
 
Chapter 8. Probability and Why it Counts: Fun with a Bell-Shaped Curve
 
Chapter 9. Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me
 
Chapter 10. The One-Sample Z-Test: Only the Lonely
 
Chapter 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
 
Chapter 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
 
Chapter 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
 
Chapter 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction
 
Chapter 15. Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient: Cousins or Just Good Friends?
 
Chapter 16. Using Linear Regression: Predicting the Future
 
Chapter 17. Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests: What to Do When You’re Not Normal
 
Chapter 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
 
Chapter 19. Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your BIG Data

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Dr Mary Fisher
Yuma Campus, Northern Arizona University
February 13, 2023

Excellent text for my social research statistics course.

Dr Bill Brocato
Social Sciences Dept, Univ Of Maryland Eastern Shore
December 14, 2020

Very useful help for first-time statistics in social sciences students.

Dr Billy R Brocato
Sociology, Wiley College
February 24, 2021

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1. Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You


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