Author | Vaughan, Liwen |
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Title | Statistical methods for the information professional : a practical, painless approach to understanding, using, and interpreting statistics / Liwen Vaughan |
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Medford, NJ : Information Today, 2001 |
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Descript |
xxi, 209 p. ; 24 cm |
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CONTENT
Recognizing the types of Data -- Avoiding manual calculations and formula manipulations-using software -- First look-using graphs to see the characteristics of data -- Summarizing messy data into neat figures-descriptive statistics -- How to collect data-sampling methods -- Examining relationships for nominal and ordinal data-Chi-square test -- Examining relationships for interval and ratio data-correlation and regression -- Are two samples significantly different? -- Are three or more samples significantly different? -- When data do not bahave-using nonparametric tests -- When should I use which test?-a road map -- Getting sophisticated-a taste of some advanced statistical methods
SUBJECT
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Commercial statistics
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