Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences
by Frances Clegg
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5024301
EAN: 9780521288026
ISBN: 0521288029
Label: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1983-01-13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Summary: A brilliant help on the step to World of Statistics
Comment: I shamed to admit that after 20 years work in medicine and research reading this book gave me understanding of many seemed to me terrible features of statistics. I dreamed of reading such book for a long time. I only can say "later better than never" and I am very happy and pleased that I found this book. English is not my first language but even that this book so easy readable and an excellent tutor. I wish it will be translated to other many languages.
Thank you, dear Frances Clegg. I fill like a shroud has been taken from my eyes and now World of Statistics has opened its door to me.
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Summary: A gorgeous little book!
Comment: This book sets out to explain what statistics can do for you, how it can do it, and how and why you choose between statistical tests. It's about making it meaningful rather than about getting you to do calculations - to the extent that the calculations themselves are relegated to appendixes, so that you look them up as, if and when you need them.
My experience has been that nothing is harder to understand that something you don't see the point of in the first place. And most stats books seem to come from where the last person to teach me stats came from - anyone who can't do the whole thing in two minutes is thick to the point of being, as the noted intellectual, Donald Rumsfelt, would say, "a bad person".
To repeat the point - really this book is much more about helping people see why it's worthwhile to use stats, than it is about "doing sums" (though they are there as well).
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Summary: Simple Statistics lives up to its name
Comment: It's not easy to find a book on statistics that makes sense and doesn't intimidate the reader. This book lives up to its title and demystifies the kind of statistics that can give you nighmares. Francis Clegg has been making sense for a long time now as the date of this edition illustrates. In my opinion, it is still the best that is around.
This is a very practical guide to how numbers work. Each chapter is clear and logical. There are exercises throughout so that you can check how you are doing. Thankfully, all the answers are in the back!
In a slim edition, she covers some essentials of both descriptive and inferential statistics. If those terms are unfamiliar to you now, the book will quickly have you up to speed. The style is straight forwards and there is a nice sense of humour in the many cartoons that brighted up the pages. Let's face it, any book that illustrates statistics with cartoons of teddy bears has got to be a good book!
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Summary: Perfect for those who are terrified of stats
Comment: This book is so easy to read, the use of cartoons helps relax those with a terror of maths and is particularly useful for those studying a research methods module in 1st year psychology. An essential text for clarifying anything that goes over your head during lectures, and a great revision tool.
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