Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data - Hardcover

Devore, Jay L.; Peck, Roxy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534196144 ISBN 13: 9780534196141

Publisher: Duxbury Press, 1993

Synopsis

Real data is used in nearly all examples and exercises in this revision of Devore and Peck's well-respected introduction to statistics. Presenting the latest statistical concepts and techniques (including several chapters on data analysis) as well as full coverage of the standard topics of the course, the book divides naturally into four major sections: descriptive methods, probability, basic one- and two-sample inferential techniques, and more advanced inferential methods. In addition to ''standard'' topics, the authors integrate material that reflects current developments in statistical analysis, including stem-and-leaf displays, boxplots, transformations, residual analysis, normal probability plots, and distributions-free confidence intervals. Written to be accessible to students with just one year of intermediate algebra, the book focuses on concepts rather than formulae and symbol manipulation, motivating students with an abundance of real data.

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About the Author

Jay Devore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley, spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England, and finished his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. Jay previously taught at the University of Florida and at Oberlin College and has had visiting appointments at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Washington, New York University, and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006, he served as Chair of the Statistics Department. In addition to this book, Jay has written several widely used engineering statistics texts and a book in applied mathematical statistics. He recently coauthored a text in probability and stochastic processes. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly, is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association , and has served several terms as an Associate Editor of the "Journal of the American Statistical Association." In his spare time, he enjoys reading, cooking and eating good food, tennis, and travel to faraway places. He is especially proud of his wife, Carol, a retired elementary school teacher, his daughter Allison, who has held several high-level positions in nonprofit organizations in Boston and New York City, and his daughter Teresa, an ESL teacher in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0534196144
• ISBN 13: 9780534196141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 840