Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians

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I consider this a must-read if you've ever taken postsecondary or college-level math (which would have covered the basic statistics mentioned in the book). For complete newbies, I think this is a great book to wet your appetite without overwhelming you with unnecessarily details. And for a Nurse soon about to embark on a PhD that could be considered a big tick in the, oh dear this could be tougher than it looks box.

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The sessions will be interactive and questions will be welcomed to help you with your statistical fears. That being said there were some good tidbits of information on misuse of statistics by third parties to strengthen their cause. For example, if we say that our study populations are all lawyers in Delhi, we should state whether those lawyers are included who have retired, are working part-time, or non-practicing, or those who have left the city but still registered at Delhi. On the other hand - the statistical probability that you even considered reading this book unless you actually wanted to improve your skills to begin with.To undertake a separate exercise of listing the population for the study may be time consuming and tedious. If nothing else, statistics are an extraordinary powerful force in the data-saturated world we live in. As for the book: A good little book, I read it along side a stats class and found it helped fill some holes that existed in my understanding, yet at the same time simply wasn't deep enough.

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Alternatively, a population may be defined in relation to a prominent geographic feature, such as a river, or mountain, which imposes a certain uniformity of ways of life, attitudes, and behavior upon the people who live in the vicinity. A nice overview of statistics with a useful review chapter, it will sit naturally on the bookshelf alongside such invaluable tomes as 'subtraction without sorrow', 'addition without anger' and 'multiplication without madness' and many, many others. If you are about to take a course in statistics, or if you want to know what the statisticians are trying to say to you, then this is the book for you.That’s the best way to make sure that you’re actively processing the material and the reason why I’ve already recommended the book to two friends who are trying to start learning stats. I do have to mention that stats does not go only as far as a module in A Level Further Maths, it is very much used around and beyond. Teaching by means of words and diagrams rathefl than through figures, formulae and equations, the author is providing an approach for the non-mathematical reader. I saw this on the shelf and immediately picked it up - I didn't have the best relationship with stats and wanted to try and salvage it before plunging into A Level Further Stats, which would have fully sent me into ruin if I didn’t at least try to attempt to love it.

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Some may suspect that the lack of excessive calculations (you still have to do some calculations, although most are simple enough to be done mentally) would lead to a suboptimal learning experience. The following discussion endeavors to explain the inputs required for making a correct inference from a sample to the target population. The book is clear and plainly explained with worked examples it is written in a seminar style - so the flow is interrupted by mini-questions. Because of this feasibility, a systematic sample may have some advantage over a simple random sample.However, if in a study it is tried to find the association between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and subsequent school performance of the child, the study will extend to years. Aside from the mathematical complexities, I was plagued by programming languages that seem to have been designed by dinosaurs (I’m looking at you, “R”) and interaction with material that I thought I would have no relationship with following my graduation. Rowntree says at the end If you feel I've raised more questions in your mind than I've answered, I shan't be surprised or apologetic. As I argued to my students, they can also make you seem like a magician to people who fear statistics.

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Focus group discussions (qualitative study) with local people, especially those residing away from the health center, may give an indication whether serious underreporting is occurring.This give-and-take approach made the book feel conversational, a momentous accomplishment in statistics in my view. When it is impossible to relate cases of a disease to a population, perhaps because the cases were ascertained through a hospital with an undefined catchment area, proportional morbidity rates may be used. She has over 20 years experience of teaching statistics to undergraduates and postgraduates in a range of health professions and with a range of experience (and levels of statistics-phobia! but also clarifies the application of basic statistics tools (significance tests, confidence intervals and so on).