Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data - Hardcover

Watkins, Ann E.; Scheaffer, Richard L.; Cobb, George W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470412100 ISBN 13: 9780470412107

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

*Statistics in Action reflects the latest developments in statistics and employs modern, effective methods to teach this increasingly important topic. * Important concepts, real-world context- Students will learn to conduct, randomize and analyze surveys and experiments.

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Review

From the reviews:

"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 ... ." (Book News on the Internet, January, 2005)

"This book is designed for an introductory statistics course ... . you will be immersed in real problems that can be solved only with statistical methods. You will learn to: explore, summarize, and display data; design surveys and experiments; use probability to understand random behavior; make inferences about populations by looking at samples from those populations; make inferences about the effect of treatments from designed experiments." (Zentralblatt für Didaktik und Mathematik, Februar, 2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0470412100
• ISBN 13: 9780470412107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 752