Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data - Hardcover

Christine Franklin Alan Agresti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0135132401 ISBN 13: 9780135132401

Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008

Synopsis

KEY MESSAGE: Alan Agresti and Chris Franklin have merged their research and classroom experience to develop this successful introductory statistics text. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Second Edition helps readers become statistically literate by encouraging them to ask and answer interesting statistical questions. It takes the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science in modern life and makes them accessible and engaging to readers without compromising necessary rigor.

KEY TOPICS: GATHERING and EXPLORING DATA; Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data; Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries; Association: Contingency, Correlation, and Regression; Gathering Data; PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; Probability in our Daily Lives; Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; INFERENCE STATISTICS; Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals; Statistical Inference: Significance Tests about Hypotheses; Comparing Two Groups; ANALYZING ASSOCIATIONS AND EXTENDED STATISTICAL METHODS; Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables; Analyzing the Association Between Quantitative Variables: Regression Analysis; Multiple Regression; Comparing Groups: Analysis of Variance Methods; Nonparametric Statistics

MARKET: for all readers interested in statistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0135132401
• ISBN 13: 9780135132401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 47