Chapter 1: Why we use numbers in research Chapter 2: What is a number?: Issues of measurement
Part II: Basic analyses
Chapter 3: Working with one variable Chapter 4: Working with tables of categorical variables Chapter 5: Examining differences between real numbers Chapter 6: Significance tests: how to conduct them and what they do not mean Chapter 7: Significance tests: why we should not report them
Part III: Advanced issues for analysis
Chapter 8: The role of judgement in analysis Chapter 9: Research designs Chapter 10: Sampling and populations Chapter 11: What is randomness? Chapter 12: Handling missing data: The importance of what we don’t know Chapter 13: Handling missing data: more complex issues
Part IV: Modelling with data
Chapter 14: Errors in measurements Chapter 15: Correlating two real numbers Chapter 16: Predicting measurements using simple linear regression Chapter 17: Predicting measurements using multiple linear regression Chapter 18: Assumptions and limitations in regression Chapter 19: Predicting outcomes using logistic regression Chapter 20: Data reduction techniques