The Basic Practice of Statistics, Third Edition Moore, David S.

[This book] is an introduction to statistics for students in two-year and four-year colleges and universities that emphasizes working with data and statistical ideas. It is designed to be accessible to students with limited quantitative background - just" algebra" in the sense of being able to read and use simple equations. The book is usable with almost any level of technology for calculating and graphing - from a simple "two-variables statistics" calculator through a graphing calculator or spreadsheet program through full statistical software. -To the instructor.

DAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. He received his A.B. from Princeton (1962) and the Ph.D. from Cornell (1967), both in mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association.