Robert de Vries: Critical Statistics

Cover: 9781137609793 | Critical Statistics | Seeing Beyond the Headlines | Robert de Vries

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Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.

This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the barrage of numbers encountered in their everyday lives and studies. Almost all the statistics in the news, on social media or in scientific reports are based on just a few core concepts, including measurement (ensuring we count the right thing), causation (determining whether one thing causes another) and sampling (using just a few people to understand a whole population). By explaining these concepts in plain language, without complex mathematics, this book prepares students to meet the statistical world head on and to begin their own quantitative research projects.

Ideal for students facing statistical research for the first time, or for anyone interested in understanding more about the numbers in the news, this textbook helps students to see beyond the headlines and behind the numbers.

Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.

Über den Autor

Robert de Vries is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.

Zusammenfassung

A wealth of online resources on the book's companion website, including more examples and exercises, links to key datasets and a portal to share examples of bad statistics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 99% of statistics are made up
2. Where do numbers come from?
3. Samples, samples everywhere
4. Measure for measure
5. What does it mean to be average?
6. Fraction of a man
7. Cause and effect
8. Bad graphics
9. Context is everything
10. Do it yourself

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781137609793
ISBN-10:	1137609796
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Vries, Robert de
Hersteller:	Red Globe Press Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert de Vries
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.10.2018
Gewicht:	0,412 kg