Lies, Damned Lies, or Statistics. How to Tell the Truth with Statistics

Аннотация

This is a text book written in 2017 meant to cover the basic concepts of statistics for a one semester undergraduate course. The contents include: descriptive statistics (population, variables, samples, graphs), numerical descriptions (measures of center and dispersion), Bi-variate Statistics (scatterplots, correlation, independent and dependent variables), Linear regression, probability theory, and research methods (population parameter, causality, control group, blinking, etc.). There is no discussion of concepts such as: levels of measurement, counting methods in probability, confidence interval for population proportion, type I and II mistakes, and evaluation sample size, and Chi square.