Statistics for sports and exercise science / John Newell, Tom Aitchison, Stanley Grant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discovering statistics -- Why bother with statistics in sports science? -- The basic approach -- Some basic vocabulary -- More on variables -- Some underlying ideas -- Examples of case studies -- Summary -- Designing a study -- Introduction -- Collecting the data (sampling) -- Sources of variablility -- Other important issues in designing a study -- Summary -- Summarising and displaying data -- Introduction -- Numerical summaries for continuous variables -- Graphical methods for continuous variables -- Single-sample problems (independent data) -- Designs involving between-subject factors only -- Within-subject designs (dependent data) -- Designs with between- and within-subject factors -- Between-subject designs incorporating a covariate -- Modelling relationships (correlation and regression) -- Summary -- Technical appendix -- Estimating parameters -- Introduction -- Interval estimation -- Interval estimation for a population mean -- Comparing two population means (the simplest between-subject design) -- Interval estimation for paired data (the simplest within-subject design) -- One between- and one within-subject factor (each at two levels) -- Prediction and tolerance intervals -- What if the normality assumption is questionable? -- Summary.