Statistics Essentials For Dummies

Date: May 2010
Publisher: Wiley
192pp

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