Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data (with CD-ROM) (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Hardcover

Devore, Jay L.; Peck, Roxy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534358675 ISBN 13: 9780534358679

Publisher: Duxbury Press, 2000

Synopsis

Jay Devore and Roxy Peck's new book features analysis of data, often using real data, as the prime motivation for the study of statistics. Traditional in structure yet modern in spirit, the book incorporates material that reflects an increased emphasis on issues involved in data collection. Focusing on concepts rather than calculation, the authors place the emphasis in probability on intuition and simulation (rather than mathematical formalism and offer more examples and exercises in order to integrate description and exploration from the early chapters.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0534358675
• ISBN 13: 9780534358679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 736