Statistics Essentials For Dummies (For Dummies Series) - Softcover

Statistics Essentials For Dummies not only provides students enrolled in Statistics I with an excellent high-level overview of key concepts, but it also serves as a reference or refresher for students in upper-level statistics courses. Free of review and ramp-up material, Statistics Essentials For Dummies sticks to the point, with content focused on key course topics only. It provides discrete explanations of essential concepts taught in a typical first semester college-level statistics course, from odds and error margins to confidence intervals and conclusions. This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical statistics concepts as they help high school students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom who just need a refresher of the core concepts. The Essentials For Dummies Series Dummies is proud to present our new series, The Essentials For Dummies. Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.

Just the essential concepts you need to get ahead in statistics

This practical guide sticks to the point with discrete explanations of essential concepts taught in a typical first semester statistics course. From graphs and confidence intervals to regression and hypothesis testing, the nitty-gritty information presented here is perfect to use in studying for exams, doing homework, or as a quick reference.

• Chart your statistics course — get a handle on charts, graphs, and descriptive stats from standard deviations to correlations

• Know your distributions — understand the probabilities for the normal, binomial, and t

• Do the analysis — handle hypothesis tests, confidence intervals, regression, and two-way tables with ease

• Take it to the limit — get the lowdown on sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

• Roll up your sleeves — discover the many experiments, surveys, and tests you'll encounter in statistics

Open the book and find:

• Descriptive stats, charts, and graphs

• Binomial, normal, and t-distributions

• The Central Limit Theorem

• Correlation and regression

• Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals

• Probabilities for two-way tables

• Checklists for evaluating surveys and experiments

• Ten common statistical mistakes

Learn to:

• Exactly what you need to know about statistical ideas and techniques

• The "must-know" formulas and calculations

• Core topics in quick, focused lessons