Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Sixth Edition

by Neil J. Salkind

Student Resources

Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You
Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages
Vive la Différence: Understanding Variability
A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words
Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients
Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity
Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions
Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts
Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me
Only the Lonely: The One-Sample Z-Test
t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups
t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups
Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance
Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance—A Brief Introduction
Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient
Predicting Who’ll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression
What to Do When You’re Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests
Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About
Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your BIG Data
A Statistical Software Sampler
- Video and Multimedia
- SAGE Journal Articles
The 10 (or More) Best (and Most Fun) Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff
- Video and Multimedia
The Ten Commandments of Data Collection
- Video and Multimedia

This is a chapter without data sets, but the next chapter has some.

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