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Using everyday numbers effectively in research /

Can you add up the number of students in your classroom? Can you tell which of two test scores is the larger? Can you programme a video or DVD recording using a 24-hour clock? If so, then this book will show you how everyday numbers like these can also be used to make your research more powerful, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gorard, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum, 2006.
Colección:Research methods series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Can you add up the number of students in your classroom? Can you tell which of two test scores is the larger? Can you programme a video or DVD recording using a 24-hour clock? If so, then this book will show you how everyday numbers like these can also be used to make your research more powerful, and enable you to spot the abuses of number that are as common in research as they are in everyday life. This book illustrates how numbers can be used routinely and successfully for research purposes - without you ever having to consider confidence intervals, probability densities, Gaussian distributi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 94 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781441108807
1441108807
1283202573
9781283202572