Translating Statistics to Make Decisions : A Guide for the Non-Statistician

Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Design of Experiments -- Forming the Study Question -- Forming Hypotheses -- Information Required -- Power and Sample Size -- Calculation Information -- Risk (Confidence and Power Levels) -- Continuous Data -- Binary Data -- Conducting the Calculations -- Defining the Scope of the Study -- Applicability of Results -- Assumptions -- Experimental Design -- Variables -- Interactions -- Confounding -- Designed Experiments -- Physical Experiments -- Factorial and Optimal Designs -- Adaptive Designs -- Other Designs -- Computer Experiments -- Surveys -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Data Collection -- Collecting the Data -- Objective Data -- Variation -- Repeats -- Precision -- Subjective Data -- Participants -- Instructions -- Repeats -- Observers -- Instructions -- Authority -- Variation -- Formatting -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Exploratory Data Analysis -- Data Types -- Quantitative Data -- Continuous Data -- Discrete Data -- Qualitative Data -- Binary Data -- Nominal Data -- Ordinal Data -- Viewing the Data -- Bar Charts -- Dot Plots -- Parallel Lines Plots -- Histograms -- Scatter Plots -- Line Graphs -- Box Plots -- Likert Plots -- Trellis Graphs -- Outliers -- Distribution -- Tests -- Continuous Data -- Discrete Data -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Descriptive Statistics -- Continuous Data -- Shape -- Skewness -- Kurtosis -- Transformations -- Location -- Mode -- Median -- Mean -- Weighted Mean -- Spread -- Standard Deviation and Variance -- Range -- Quantiles and Percentiles -- IQR and SIQR -- MAD -- CV -- Discrete Data -- Bivariate Data -- Contingency Tables -- Correlation and Covariance -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Measuring Uncertainty -- Confidence Intervals -- Continuous Data -- Binary Data -- Tolerance Intervals -- Continuous Data -- Binary Data