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    <title>Beginning statistics</title>
    <subTitle>an introduction for social scientists</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Jefferies, Julie</namePart>
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    <edition>Second edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Are statistics relevant to real life? -- Data and table manners -- Graphs and charts -- Averages and percentiles -- Spreads -- Transforming data -- The normal distribution -- From samples to populations -- Getting confident -- Fun with proportions -- How to decide how to decide -- More tricky decisions -- Correlation and regression -- Analysing tables with categorical data  -- Conclusion -- Statistical tables -- Answers to practice questions -- Algebra and mathematical notation explained.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Liam Foster, Ian Diamond, Julie Jefferies.</note>
  <note>Previous edition: 2001.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-277) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Statistical methods</topic>
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    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <subject authority="eclas">
    <topic>Méthodes statistiques</topic>
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  <subject authority="eclas">
    <topic>Sciences sociales</topic>
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    <topic>forskning - metodik</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HA29 .D44 2015</classification>
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