Statistical literacy : a beginner's guide /
Rhys C. Jones.
- viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Building a foundation -- Polls and surveys -- Introduction to categorising and visualising data -- The language of statistics and statistical inference -- An introduction to data stories -- Media reports and social media platforms -- Experiments and observational methods in research -- How to read journals with quantitative data -- Telling stories with descriptive data, tables, and graphs -- Common misconceptions in statistics and statistical literacy -- Statistics communicated badly -- The power of statistical literacy and statistical reasoning.
9781529754797
Statistical literacy. Statistics. Statistics --study and teaching. Social sciences--statistical methods. Mathematical statistics.