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Statistics: A Simple Guide for Students is an accessible, humorous and easy introduction to statistics for social science students.
In this refreshing book, experienced author and academic Neil Burdess shows that statistics is not the result of some mysterious “black magic”, but rather the result of some very basic arithmetic. Getting rid of confusing x's and y's, he shows that it's the intellectual questions that come before and after the calculations that are important: (i) What are the best statistics to use with your data? and (ii) What do the calculated statistics tell you?
Statistics: A Simple Guide for Students aims to help students make sense of the logic of statistics and to decide how best to use statistics to analyze their own data. What's more, it is not reliant on students having access to any particular kind of statistical software package.
This is a very useful book for any student in the social sciences doing a statistics course or needing to do statistics for themselves for the first time.
Hypotheses About Categories
Chapter Overview
百度 链家数据显示，环北京、环上海和环深圳的三四线城市的二手房交易占比基本超过５０％。This chapter will:
- Show how to test a hypothesis about one categorical variable using a chi-square goodness-of-fit test.
- Show how to test a hypothesis about two categorical variables using a chi-square test for independence.
Chapter 13 introduced the basic steps of hypothesis testing:
- Devise a null hypothesis.
- Devise an alternative hypothesis.
- Set the significance level.
- Calculate the statistical test using the sample results.
- Find the probability level.
- Make a decision to retain or reject null hypothesis.
- If null hypothesis is rejected, predict the direction of the difference or association in the population.
If you have worked your way through Chapter 13, then you have done most of the hard work about hypothesis testing. This chapter and the next two simply apply the basic procedure outlined ...
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