Understanding Statistics

This book is design to College students and other Professionals who would like to enhance knowledge on social and educational statistics. The book deals with uses and importance of statistics, collection and presentation of data, sampling technique, data organization, descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution, measures of central tendencies, position, dispersion/ variability, skewness, kurtosis, and normal distribution of data. Discussion and concrete illustrations on regression and correlation analysis, t- test, F-test, z-test, chi-square test, alternative non-parametric analysis of variance, one-way classification and two-way classification analysis of data. The methods of social research presented will enlighten young researcher on the appropriateness of statistical tools they will use in the analysis of data.

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Ph.D. studied Silviculture, Agroforestry, Statistics, GIS and Operation Research at the University of the Philippines. Research and Extension Deputy Director, Chairman of the MS Graduate Program and Editor-in-Chief of the Graduate Journal of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology,Arakan Cotabato Philippines