| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 691 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Exploring data -- Exploring data: variables and distributions -- Picturing distributions with graphs -- Describing distributions with numbers -- The normal distributions -- Exploring data: relationships -- Scatterplots and correlation -- Regression -- Two-way tables -- From exploration to inference -- Producing data -- Producing data: sampling -- Producing data: experiments -- Probability and sampling distributions -- Introducing probability -- Sampling distributions -- General rules of probability -- Binomial distributions -- Introducing inference -- Confidence intervals: the basics -- Tests of significance: the basics -- Inference in practice -- Inference about variables -- Quantitative response variable -- Inference about a population mean -- Two-sample problems -- Categorical response variable -- Inference about a population proportion -- Comparing two proportions -- Inference about relationships -- Two categorical variables: the chi-square test -- Inference for regression -- One-way analysis of variance: comparing several means -- Optional companion chapters (available o n the BPS CD and printed separately) -- Nonparametic tests -- Statistical process control. |
| Summary |
[This book] is an introduction to statistics for students in two-year and four-year colleges and universities that emphasizes working with data and statistical ideas. It is designed to be accessible to students with limited quantitative background - just "algebra" in the sense of being able to read and use simple equations. The book is usable with almost any level of technology for calculating and graphing - from a simple "two-variables statistics" calculator through a graphing calculator or spreadsheet program through full statistical software. -To the instructor. |
| System Details |
Windows and Mac on one disc. |
| Subject |
Statistics as Topic.
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| ISBN |
0716796236 |
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9780716796237 |
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0716758814 |
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9780716758815 |
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