Good-Natured Statistics

Download or read book Good-Natured Statistics written by Ann Weaver and published by Bookman Publishing & Marketing. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you cringe at the idea of doing statistics? Would you rather do anything else but statistics? Good-Natured Statistics is for you. It is unique. It explains basic concepts and statistics in understandable language with real-world examples and stories about animal behavior. If you have to learn statistics but do not want to, this is the book for you. What students have said? ?Thanks for making a very complex subject much simpler!!!? L. Payton ?I am a numbers and stats wreck. Good-Natured Statistics is the prescription I needed to calm my nerves.' C. Long ?Statistics have always been a big blur for me. It is refreshing to pick up Dr. Weaver's chapters and read.' O. Darby ?Dr. Weaver has a very direct way of explaining the material, almost simplistic. I appreciate this quality.' C. Westerman ?Using romance to explain [Chapter 3 concepts] is just what I needed.' L. Watkins ?Your way of defining hypothesis testing made me laugh.' D. Westerman ?I particularly liked Dr. Weaver's analogies to gambling, examples like personal beauty and her experiences with the dolphins an baby chimps.' A. Johnson