Statistics: Concepts And Controversies: Concepts and Control - Brossura

Notz, William I.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0716786362 ISBN 13: 9780716786368

Casa editrice: W H Freeman & Co, 2005

Riassunto

The data analysis approach pioneered by David Moore was first introduced in this groundbreaking brief text for liberal arts students. By emphasizing concepts and applications to a wide range of fields (as opposed to formulas and computation) the text has become an influential bestseller, and its emphasis on ideas and data is now generally acknowledged as the most effective way to teach statistics to nonmathematical students. Featuring new coauthor, William Notz and new features, exercises, and applications, the sixth edition of Stastisics: Concepts and Controversies is ready to reveal the power of statistics to a new generation of students.

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L'autore:

DAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. He received his A.B. from Princeton (1962) and the Ph.D. from Cornell (1967), both in Mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as programme director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He was 1998 President of the American Statistical Association.

Contenuti:

PART ONE: PRODUCING DATA
Where Does Data Come From?
Samples, Good and Bad
What Do Samples Tell Us?
Sample Surveys in the Real World
Experiments, Good and Bad
Experiments in the Real World
Data Ethics
Measuring
Do the Numbers Make Sense?
Review I: Producing Data
PART TWO: ORGANIZING DATA
Graphs Good and Bad
Displaying Distributions with Graphs
Describing Distributions with Numbers
Normal Distributions
Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
Review II: Organizing Data
PART THREE: CHANCE
Thinking about Chance
Probability Models
Simulation
The House Edge: Expected Values
Review III: Chance
PART FOUR: INFERENCE
What is a Confidence Interval?
What is a Test of Significance?
Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test
Inference About a Population Means
PART FOUR: Review

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W H Freeman & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0716786362
• ISBN 13: 9780716786368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 561