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Making Sense of Statistics

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Statistics, Non-mathematical Methods and How to Use this Book
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    Chapter 2 Probability, Samples, Buckets and Balls
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    Chapter 3 Summing Things up: Graphs, Averages, Standard Deviations, Correlations and so on
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    Chapter 4 Why Use Statistics? Pros, Cons and Alternatives
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    Chapter 5 Calculating Probabilities: Mental Ball Crunching and Computer Games
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    Chapter 6 Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How can we Decide What’s True?
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    Chapter 7 How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals
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    Chapter 8 Checking if Anything is Going on: Tests of Null Hypotheses
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    Chapter 9 Predicting the Unpredictable or Explaining the Inexplicable: Regression Models
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    Chapter 10 How to do it and What Does it Mean? The Design and Interpretation of Investigations
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Chapter title
Possible Worlds and Actual Worlds: How can we Decide What’s True?
Chapter number 6
Book title
Making Sense of Statistics
Published by
Palgrave, London, January 2003
DOI 10.1007/978-0-230-80278-0_6
Book ISBNs
978-1-4039-0107-1, 978-0-230-80278-0
Authors

Michael Wood

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