Study Guide t/a Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach - Softcover

Bluman, Allan G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072375868 ISBN 13: 9780072375862

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 2000

Synopsis

Geared toward the student without a strong mathematical background, this text uses a non-theoretical approach in which concepts are explained intuitively and are supported by examples. Students majoring in such fields as natural and social sciences, business, economics, and computer science will understand how statistics applies to their chosen field through the use of examples drawn from such disciplines.

About this title

About the Author:

Allan G. Bluman is Professor of Mathematics at Community College of Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh. For the McKeesport and New Kensington Campuses of Pennsylvania State University, he has taught teacher-certification and graduate education statistics courses. Prior to his college teaching, he taught mathematics at a junior high school.

Professor Bluman received his B.S. from California State College in California, Penn.; his M.Ed. from the University of Pittsburgh; and, in 1971, his Ed.D., also from the University of Pittsburgh. His major field of study was mathematics education.

In addition to Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach, Third Edition, and Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version, the author has published several professional articles and the Modern Math Fun Book (Cuisenaire Publishing Company). He has spoken and presided at national and local mathematics conferences and has served as newsletter editor for the Pennsylvania State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Mathematics Council of Western Pennsylvania. Al Bluman is married and has two children. His hobbies include writing, bicycling, and swimming.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072375868
• ISBN 13: 9780072375862
• Binding: Paperback