Alon Friedman

Statistics for Library and Information Services

A Primer for Using Open Source R Software for Accessibility and Visualization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Statistics for Library and Information Services, written for non-statisticians, provides logical, user-friendly, and step-by-step instructions to make statistics more accessible for students and professionals in the field of Information Science. It emphasizes concepts of statistical theory and data collection methodologies, but also extends to the topics of visualization creation and display, so that the reader will be able to better conduct statistical analysis and communicate findings. Don't miss the book's companion Web site at www.statisticsforlis.org

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781442249929
• ISBN-10: 1442249927
• Artikelnr.: 42966933

Autorenporträt

By Alon Friedman

Inhaltsangabe

Part I INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2   
Research Design CHAPTER 3    Data (Types and Collection Methods) CHAPTER 4
How to Run R Part II MAKING SENSE OF STATISTICS CHAPTER 5    Descriptive
statistics CHAPTER 6    Bivariate Statistics CHAPTER 7 Probability Theory
CHAPTER 8    Random Variables and Probability Distributions CHAPTER 9  
Sampling Distributions CHAPTER 10  Confidence Interval Estimation CHAPTER
11   Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing CHAPTER 12  Correlation and
Regression CHAPTER 13   Analysis of Variances and Chi-square Tests CHAPTER
14   Time Series and Predictive Analytics Part III VISUALIZATION IN R
CHAPTER 15  Visualization Display CHAPTER 16   Advanced Visualization
Display CHAPTER 17   Applying visualization to statistics analysis
APPENDIX  A Frequency used formulas used in this book APPENDIX B Frequency
R commands APPENDIX C     References