A Whistle-Stop Tour of Statistics (Paperback)

Some Basics and Describing Data
Population, Samples and Variables
Types of Variables
Tabulating and Graphing data: Frequency Distributions, Histograms and Dotplots
Summarizing Data: Mean, Variance and Range
Comparing Data from Different Groups Using Summary Statistics and Boxplots
Relationship between Two Variables, Scatterplots and Correlation Coefficients
Types of Studies
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Probability
Probability
Odds and Odds Ratios
Permutations and Combinations
Conditional Probabilities and Bayes’ Theorem
Random Variables, Probability Distributions and Probability Density Functions
Expected Value and Moments
Moment-Generating Function
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Estimation
Point Estimation
Sampling Distribution of the Mean and the Central Limit Theorem
Estimation by the Method of Moments
Estimation by Maximum Likelihood
Choosing Between Estimators
Sampling Distributions: Student’s t, Chi-Square and Fisher’s F
Interval Estimation, Confidence Intervals
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Inference
Inference and Hypotheses
Significance Tests, Type I and Type II Errors, Power and the z-Test
Power and Sample Size
Student’s t-Tests
The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
Nonparametric Tests
Testing the Population Correlation Coefficient
Tests on Categorical Variables
The Bootstrap
Significance Tests and Confidence Intervals
Frequentist and Bayesian Inference
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Analysis of Variance Models
One-Way Analysis of Variance
Factorial Analysis of Variance
Multiple Comparisons, a priori and post hoc Comparisons
Nonparametric Analysis of Variance
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Linear Regression Models
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Selecting a Parsimonious Model
Regression diagnostics
Analysis of variance as regression
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Logistic Regression and the Generalized Linear Model
Odds and odds ratios
Logistic regression
Generalized linear model
Variance function and overdispersion
Diagnostics for GLMs
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Survival Analysis
Survival data and censored observations
Survivor function, log-rank test and hazard function
Proportional hazards and Cox regression
Diagnostics for Cox regression
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Longitudinal Data and Their Analysis
Longitudinal data and some graphics
Summary measure analysis
Linear mixed effects models
Missing data in longitudinal studies
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Multivariate Data and Their Analysis
Multivariate data
Mean vectors, variances, covariance and correlation matrices
Two multivariate distributions: The multinomial distribution and the multivariate normal distribution
The Wishart distribution
Principal Components Analysis
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