TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Alon
TI  - Statistics for library and information services: a primer for using open source R software for accessibility and visualization 
SN  - 9781442249929 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 020.727 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lanham : 
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield, 
KW  - Information science
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Library statistics
KW  - R (Computer program language)
KW  - Information visualization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction --
2. Research design --
3. Data (types and collection methods) --
4. How to run R --
5. Descriptive statistics --
6. Bivariate statistics --
7. Probability theory --
8. Random variables and probability distributions --
9. Sampling --
10. Confidence interval estimation --
11. Fundamentals of hypothesis testing --
12. Correlation and regression --
13. Analysis of variances and chi-square tests --
14. Time series and predictive analytics --
15. Visualization display --
16. Advanced visualization display --
17. Applying visualization to statistics analysis --
Appendices
N2  - Statistics for Library and Information Services, written for non-statisticians, provides logical, user-friendly, and step-by-step instructions to make statistics more accessible for students and professionals in the field of Information Science. It emphasizes concepts of statistical theory and data collection methodologies, but also extends to the topics of visualization creation and display, so that the reader will be able to better conduct statistical analysis and communicate findings
ER  -