ADVANCED STATISTICS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Author: Dr. D. Rajalakshmi

Some students look forward with relish to a course in statistics. The word itself evokes feelings of apprehension and the thought of working with mathematical formulas causes many to anticipate difficulties that need never arise. Why the concern? Many fear that statistics will be too difficult for them to grasp because their knowledge of mathematics is rudimentary and much of what they once knew is now forgotten. We can reassure readers that the level of arithmetical skills and the knowledge of elementary algebra necessary to follow this text is well within the ability of an average 13-14-year-old pupil. That said, statistics is a branch of mathematics and the statistical methods and formulae that we introduce are mathematically derived. However, it is neither our intention to present mathematical explanations of statistical techniques nor at the other extreme, to provide a cookbook of statistical recipes.

Contents:

Chapters: Introduction, Statistics in Modern Research, Need for understanding Statistics,Organization of Data, Frequency Distribution, Histogram,Frequency Polygon,Cumulative Frequency Graph or Ogive, Pie Graph, Measures of central tendency, Mean, Median, Mode, Degrees of Freedom, Level Confidence, Measures of Variability.

ISBN 978-81-904009-0-8

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