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UNINA9910965568503321 |
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Autore |
Burdess Neil |
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Titolo |
Starting statistics : a short, clear guide / / Neil Burdess |
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Los Angeles, : SAGE, c2010 |
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Los Angeles : , : SAGE, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786613289360 |
9781446287873 |
1446287874 |
9781283289368 |
1283289369 |
9781446200322 |
1446200329 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Statistics |
Social sciences - Statistical methods |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; Contents; Part One - Measurement; 1 Introducing measurement; 2 Measuring numbers; 3 Measuring categories; Part Two - Standardisation; 4 Introducing standardisation; 5 Standardising categories; 6 Standardising numbers; Part Three - Correlations; 7 Introducing correlations; 8 Correlations between categories; 9 Correlations between numbers; Part Four - Sampling and estimation; 10 Introducing sampling; 11 Estimating numbers; 12 Estimating categories; Part Five - Hypothesis testing; 13 Introducing hypothesis testing; 14 Hypotheses about categories; 15 Hypotheses about numbers; 16 Hypotheses about categories and numbers; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This guide presents an accessible, humorous and easy introduction to statistics for social science students. Neil Burdess shows that statistics are not the result of some mysterious 'black magic', but rather the result of some very basic arithmetic. |
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