Choosing and Using Statistics

by Calvin Dytham

Book Overview

"Choosing and Using Statistics" remains an invaluable guide for students using a computer package to analyse data from research projects and practical class work. The text takes a pragmatic approach... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865426538
• ISBN13: 9780865426535
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The most practical statistics book I have ever used.

The author provides very clear and easy to follow explanations of the type of tests used and when they should be used. Furthermore, he provides step by step instructions for using the tests in SPSS, minitab, and excel, something that few other books do.

Relief for those who don't speak in equations

This is a great, practical book for ecological and evolutionary researchers. Dytham walks you through the choosing and using of different common statistical applications. If you can't find it in here, you probably have an advanced question that requires a mathematical answer, in which case it's time to dust off that heavy textbook. For most questions, this will save you time and frustration.

How to make statistics clear: a book to be ready-to-go

After too many books with a useless wealth of equations to leave you in a worse confusion here is finally a book to give you hints and tools to tackle the problem. Good coverage of both parametric and less known non-parametric statistics, modern approach through coverage of popular packages, keys to choose the various tests and lots of examples and hints for the experimental design. Generally a complete book which manages to cover with a sensible balance from the basics to more complicated designs for ANOVA evaluations.