Whether you want to understand the statistics that you are bombarded with every day or are a student or professional coming to statistics from a wide range of disciplines, Statistics: An Introduction covers it all.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Meet the author
• Introduction
• 1 Introducing statistics
• 2 Some basic maths
• 3 Graphing data
• 4 Choosing a suitable graph
• 5 Summarizing data
• 6 Lies and statistics
• 7 Choosing a sample
• 8 Collecting information
• 9 Spreadsheets to the rescue
• 10 Reading tables of data
• 11 Regression: describing relationships between things
• 12 Correlation: measuring the strength of a relationship
• 13 Chance and probability
• 14 Probability models
• 15 Deciding on differences
• Taking it further
• Appendix: Choosing the right statistical technique