Product Description

Need to know how to build and test models based on data? Intermediate Statistics For Dummies gives you the knowledge to estimate, investigate, correlate, and congregate certain variables based on the information at hand. The techniques you’ll learn in this book are the same techniques used by professionals in medical and scientific fields.

Picking up right where Statistics For Dummies left off, this straightforward, easy–to–follow book guides you beyond Central Limit Theorem and hypothesis tests and immerses you in flavors of regression, ANOVA, and nonparametric procedures. Unlike regular statistics books, this guide provides full explanations of intermediate statistical ideas; computer input dissection; an extensive number of examples, tips, strategies, and warnings; and clear, concise step–by–step procedures—all in a language you can understand. You’ll soon discover how to:

• Analyze data and base models off of your data
• Make predictions using regression
• Compare many means with ANOVA
• Test models using Chi–square
• Dealing with abnormal data

In addition, this book includes a list of wrong statistical conclusions and common questions that professors ask using computer output. This book also adopts a nonlinear approach, making it possible to skip to the information you need without having to read previous chapters. With Intermediate Statistics For Dummies, you’ll have all the tools you need to make important decisions in all types of professional areas—from biology and engineering to business and politics!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187683 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"style, language, layout,common sense, Minitab output, dire warnings,practicalities,examples,punchy headings and warmth of humour..." (MSOR Connections, Vol 8 No 1)

Review
"style, language, layout,common sense, Minitab output, dire warnings,practicalities,examples,punchy headings and warmth of humour..." (MSOR Connections, Vol 8 No 1)

From the Back Cover
Packed with examples, steps for problem–solving, and computer output

The fun and easy way to analyze data, build models, and get ahead in your class

Take your statistics skills to the next level! This easy–to–follow guide walks you through second–semester topics, explaining everything from t–tests and regression to ANOVA, sign tests, and fitting curves to your data. You′ll see how to identify and work through problems, avoid common errors, understand the jargon — and even improve your grade with savvy strategies.

Discover how to

• Review and extend intro stat methods
• Make predictions with multiple regression
• Compare many means by using ANOVA
• Use Chi–square to test for independence
• Understand and use nonparametric statistics

Customer Reviews

Unhelpful
I am currently doing a Master thesis and am struggling with the maths and statistics of it all. After failing an exam I purchased this book in a desperate hope that it would explain things more easily than my professor could. Not so.
I was very disappointed. The book is confusing and unhelpful. To my shock and horror it was actually worse than the advanced books I already owned. In the end I hired a tutor and passed my exam without any help from this book.
If you have trouble with statistics, don't waste your money on this book. Hire a tutor or buy another book.

Very good introduction to Intermediate Statistics
I found this book to be an excellent introduction to intermediate statistics. It is clear that the author has spent time thinking how to present the topics in the most accessible way. Also, it puts into context all the tools that are used in statistical analysis.

This is not a book to be resorted to as a quick-fix shortly before an exam. The concepts are explained is a verbal non-mathematical way, so it takes longer to read than would a book on the same topic with mathematical equations. However the big advantage of this is that it is easy to read and easier to remember the content.