Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data plus MyStatLab with Pearson eText, Global Edition - Softcover

Alan Agresti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292164875 ISBN 13: 9781292164878

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 2017

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 Education Limited
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1292164875
• ISBN 13: 9781292164878
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4