ABSTRACT

The get-it-over-with-quickly approach to statistics has been encouraged - and often necessitated - by the short time allotted to it in most curriculums. If included at all, statistics is presented briefly, as a task to be endured mainly because pertinent questions may appear in subsequent examinations for licensure or other certifications. However,

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|16 pages

Formation, Expression, and Coding of Data

chapter 3|14 pages

Central Index of a Group

chapter 4|22 pages

Indexes of Inner Location

chapter 5|18 pages

Inner Zones and Spreads

chapter 6|24 pages

Probabilities and Standardized Indexes

chapter 11|20 pages

Testing Stochastic Hypotheses

chapter 13|24 pages

Parametric Sampling: Z and t Tests

chapter 15|24 pages

Non-Parametric Rank Tests

chapter 18|22 pages

Principles of Associations

chapter 19|38 pages

Evaluating Trends

chapter 20|30 pages

Evaluating Concordances

chapter 22|28 pages

Survival and Longitudinal Analysis

chapter 24|22 pages

Testing for “Equivalence”

chapter 25|18 pages

Multiple Stochastic Testing

chapter 27|28 pages

Indexes of Categorical Association

chapter 28|14 pages

Non-Targeted Analyses

chapter 29|16 pages

Analysis of Variance