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    <title>Making sense of statistics</title>
    <subTitle>a conceptual overview</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Pyrczak Pub.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
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    <edition>5th ed.</edition>
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    <extent>vi, 178 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The empirical approach to knowledge -- Types of empirical research -- Introduction to sampling -- Scales of measurement -- Descriptive, correlational, and inferential statistics -- Frequencies, percentages, and proportions -- Shapes of distributions -- The mean : an average -- Mean, median, and mode -- Range and interquartile range -- Standard deviation -- Correlation -- Pearson r -- Coefficient of determination -- Scattergram -- Multiple correlation -- Variations on random sampling -- Sample size -- Standard error of the mean -- Introduction to the null hypothesis -- Decisions about the null hypothesis -- Introduction to the t test -- Reports of the results of t tests -- One-way ANOVA -- Two-way ANOVA -- Chi-square -- Limitations of significance testing -- Effect size.</tableOfContents>
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    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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