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Table of Contents | |||
Statistics for Dummies | |||
Introduction | |||
Part I - Vital Statistics about Statistics | |||
Chapter 1 | - | The Statistics of Everyday Life | |
Chapter 2 | - | Statistics Gone Wrong | |
Chapter 3 | - | Tools of the Trade | |
Part II - Number-Crunching Basics | |||
Chapter 4 | - | Getting the Picture—Charts and Graphs | |
Chapter 5 | - | Means, Medians, and More | |
Part III - Determining the Odds | |||
Chapter 6 | - | What Are the Chances?—Understanding Probability | |
Chapter 7 | - | Gambling to Win | |
Part IV - Wading through the Results | |||
Chapter 8 | - | Measures of Relative Standing | |
Chapter 9 | - | Caution—Sample Results Vary! | |
Chapter 10 | - | Leaving Room for a Margin of Error | |
Part V - Guesstimating with Confidence | |||
Chapter 11 | - | The Business of Estimation—Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals |