A Primer in Data Reduction: An Introductory Statistics Textbook

by Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg

A concise, easy to understand introduction that emphasizes the relevance of statistics to real world problems. Describes traditional statistical methods, their uses and limitations, and explains how to reduce numerical data to statistical summaries, how to interpret the results, and how to present the data clearly. Minimizes mathematics without oversimplification and illustrates theories with practical, varied examples. Statistical tables and answers to the exercises are included.

328 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1991