Basic statistics / Elizabeth B. Parreño and Ronel O. Jimenez. --

Includes references.

Part 1 Descriptive statistics -- Chapter 1 Basic concepts 2 -- Chapter 2 Collection of data 17 -- Chapter 3 Organization and presentation of data 31 -- Chapter 4 Measures of central tendency 65 -- Chapter 5 Fractiles 83 -- Chapter 6 Measures of variation 99 -- Chapter 7 Normal distribution 119 -- Part 2 Inferential statistics -- Chapter 8 Hypothesis testing 142 -- Chapter 9 Correlation analysis 165 -- Chapter 10 Chi-square 177 -- Part 3 Special topics -- Chapter 11 Probability and probability theory 190 -- Chapter 12 Health care statistics 217 -- Appendix 232 -- References 245 --

" This worktext was written not only for business, arts, and science students but also for students in the health science programs. Students with no high-level mathematics background and professionals who are non-mathematics majors will be able to read and fully understand its contents and answer correctly the exercises placed at the end of every chapter. The objective of the authors is to explain the basic concepts of statistics and teach how to perform the various statistical procedures that are necessary to understand different literatures and reports in journals, research papers, periodicals and books. Actual life data are contained in the sample problems and detailed solutions are presented. This materials was divided into three parts (Descriptive Statistics, Inferential Statistics, and Special Topics) to guide the students in the research process. It contains a summarized discussion of the concepts in inferential statistics. Commonly used statistical tools in research, like hypothesis testing, F-test or ANOVA, Pearson r, Chi-square, and regression analysis, are all found in this material. The authors intend to guide the readers in determining the appropriate statistical tool and how to use it in writing any statistical paper." Preface --