Statistics in Action. Understanding a World of Data
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Author(s): A. Watkins, R. Scheaffer and G. Cobb
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1931914273
Format: hardback
752pp
Price: £69.00, $81.25, €89,95
Review Date: 20 May 2004
Review: This introductory statistics course uses real problems that can only be solved using statistical methods. It explains in an easily-understood way how to: explore, summarise and display data; how to design experiments and surveys; how to use probability to understand random behaviour; how to make inferences about populations by looking at samples of the populations; and how to make inferences about the effects of treatments from designed experiments. There are chapters on: distributions; sample surveys; sampling distributions; probability models; probability distributions; inferences for proportions and means; chi-square tests; inference for regression; and case studies showing statistics in action. Statistical tables for standard normal probabilities, t-distribution critical values, chi-square distribution critical values, and random digits are given in the Appendix.