The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (Book CD)

Schafer, Daniel W.

ISBN 10: 0534386709 / ISBN 13: 9780534386702

Published by Duxbury Pr, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (Book CD)
• Publisher: Duxbury Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534386709
• ISBN 13: 9780534386702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

STATISTICAL SLEUTH is an innovative treatment of general statistical methods, taking full advantage of the computer, both as a computational and an analytical tool. The material is independent of any specific software package. In "The American Statistician" (February 2000, Vol. 54, No. 1), George Cobb commented, "What is new and different about Ramsey and Schafer's book, what makes it a 'larger contribution,' is that it gives much more prominence to modeling and interpretation of the sort that goes beyond the routine patterns." His students did "substantially better" on term papers based on the analysis of data. In the book, the focus is on a serious analysis of real case studies; on strategies and tools of modern statistical data analysis; on the interplay of statistics and scientific learning; and on the communication of results. With interesting examples, real data, and a variety of exercise types (conceptual, computational, and data problems), the authors get students excited about statistics.

About the Author

Native Iowan, raised in Oregon. Undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon (1961); graduate degrees from Iowa State University (1963, 64); Post-doc at Johns Hopkins University (1965-66). On the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University since 1966, with leaves for teaching/research positions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1972-3), the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia (1985-6), Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon (1990-91), and Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia (1997-8). Principal research interest in applications of statistics to wildlife problems.