These study tips are designed to clarify key points and help you to avoid errors that students commonly make. Review the Tips for Success as you study each chapter and review them again after you have studied each chapter.
- When faced with an unfamiliar statistical technique, focus on what you can understand about the technique. This may allow you to get the general idea of the result.
- You might also try doing a search on the internet for information about an unfamiliar statistical technique. However, as with textbooks, you may encounter difficulties with symbols and complex descriptions. Also, you will have to decide whether the content of a particular website is likely to be accurate (as you have likely discovered, there is a lot of inaccurate information published on the internet).
