Elementary Statistics for Effective Library and Information Service Management

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ISBN: 9780851424514 | 0851424511
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Copyright: 3/1/2001

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This title describes how best to use statistical data to produce professional reports on library activities. The authors cover data gathering, sampling, graphical representation of data and summary statistics from data, and also include a section on trend analysis. A full bibliography and a subject index make this a key title for any information professional..

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Information about the library	p. 3
Reports	p. 3
Data gathering	p. 5
Data gathering in an electronic environment	p. 6
Complete and incomplete data	p. 9
How to sample	p. 11
What to sample	p. 16
Measuring scales	p. 19
Descriptive statistics	p. 22
Graphical aspects of data	p. 23
Measuring central tendencies and irregularity of data	p. 40
Inferential statistics	p. 58
Goal of part 3	p. 58
First test for the mean: one sample and one set of measurements	p. 59
Consequence of the first test of the mean: confidence intervals for the population mean [mu]	p. 68
Second test for the mean: one sample but with two sets of measurements	p. 73
Third test for the mean: two samples	p. 76
Sample sizes	p. 79
Confidence intervals and sample sizes for multinomial fractions	p. 86
Epilogue: test for the quality of a regression line of a scatterplot - the correlation coefficient	p. 95
Conclusions	p. 101
Table of random numbers	p. 102
Logic of calculations	p. 104
Basic arithmetic on pocket calculators	p. 105
List of notation	p. 107
Bibliography	p. 108
Subject index	p. 111
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