a beginner's guide Jones, Rhys C. creator author. text xxk 2024 monographic eng

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viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 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. Rhys C. Jones. Includes index. Statistical literacy Statistics Statistics study and teaching Social sciences statistical methods Mathematical statistics HA29 J6 2024 519.5 J710s 9781529754797 CSPC 260909 20260909032457.0 eng