Main Collection 519.5 W561n 2014
For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis.
Main Collection 519.5 S755a 2019
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you a better understanding of life's biggest problems.
Main Collection 519.5 B743s 2012
Need to learn statistics for your job? Want help passing a statistics course? Statistics in a Nutshell is a clear and concise introduction and reference for anyone new to the subject.
Main Collection 300.15195 D514c 2019
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.
Reference Collection 300.1 V887d 2011
In this newly updated Fourth Edition, new terms are defined, new synonyms are included, and both are illustrated with new graphics.
The Information Plus Reference Series is a set of print and electronic books that are full of detailed information on a variety of topics. You can access articles in the electronic version of these books by going to the Gale Virtual Reference Library database (also called Gale Ebooks) and limiting your search by publication title, shown in the images below. Use the links below to access the source, and use the tabs in this box to see more tips and tricks about how to search.
The Information Plus Reference Series provides detailed information, including statistics, on a variety of topics.
The images below show you how you can search in the Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) database to limit to the publication series "Information Plus."
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Statistics are often found inside books and articles, namely, in the graphs, charts, and diagrams within them. The image of the graph below is from a CQ Research report and is but one example of how you can locate find statistical information in larger information sources.
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Image source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2010). "Disabled veterans and the labor force on the Internet" The Economics Daily, U.S. Department of Labor, at https://www.bls.gov/
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Image Source: Mantel, B. (2010, April 2). Breast cancer. CQ Researcher, 20, 289-312. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com