English for the Students of Statistics
English for the Students of Statistics, an EAP textbook for undergraduate university students of Statistics, aims to develop the learners’ reading ability in academic contexts. To this end, it:
• includes a variety of up-to-date authentic texts from a wide range of text types and genres
• focuses on fostering reading skills and strategies helpful in disciplinary contexts
• has a broad range of meaningful and engaging tasks and activities
• organizes units around themes to make them reader-friendly
• involves in-depth vocabulary activities
• provides great opportunities for improving grammar in context
• uses translation as both a reading practice and a translation activit
Schematic Chart
Introduction
Unit 1. Basics of Statistics
Unit 2. Graphical Representation of Data
Unit 3. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
Unit 4. Hypothesis Testing
Unit 5. Comparing One or Two Means Using the t-Test
Unit 6. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Unit 7. Correlation
Unit 8. Regression
Unit 9. Principal Component Analysis & Factor Analysis
Unit 10. Nonparametric Statistics
Unit 11. Common Statistical Mistakes
Unit 12. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
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