Decision Support
Table of Contents
Preface: Purpose,
Intended Audience, Scope
Chapter 1: The Decision Making
Process: A brief look at decision-making itself Section
1: Concepts Common To ALL Statistics
Chapter 2: Facts About ALL
Statistics: Some comforting facts
Chapter 3: Introduction: Definition
of Statistics and the Two Types of Statistics: Parametric and
NonParametric; Decision Making; Assumptions; Hypothesis Testing
Primer; and a Freebie
Chapter 4: Levels of Measurement:
The Four Levels of Measurement: It's ALL About Information
Chapter 5: Introduction
to Variables; and an Introduction to Sampling, Sampling Error, and
Margin of Error
Chapter 6: Introduction
to Probability, the Foundation of Statistics, and to Binomial
Probability Section
2: The NonParametric Statistics Tools
Chapter 7: One Population
Hypothesis Testing: Nominal - Runs Test, Sign Test; Ordinal, Interval
- Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
Chapter 8: Two Population
Hypothesis Testing: Nominal - Sign Test, McNemar Test, Chi-Square Contingency
Table; Ordinal, Interval - Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Mann-Whitney U
Test
Chapter 9: Three or More
Population Hypothesis Testing: Nominal - Chi Square Contingency
Table; Ordinal, Interval - Kruskall-Wallis Test
Chapter 10 : Association:
Nominal - Chi-Square Test of Association; Ordinal, Interval -
Spearman's Rank Correlation Section
3: Appendices, Downloads, Miscellaneous Stuff
Appendix: Appendix of
Tables Used
Downloads: Chapter
Examples, exercise data, and exercise solutions spreadsheets
downloads
Chapters 7 - 10
References: For further, much more detailed information
OpenOffice Help:
OpenOffice Help and Compatibility with Excel Statistics Functions
Spreadsheet Tutorial: A
Quick & Dirty Spreadsheet Tutorial
Using
Nonparametric Statistics
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