Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data

Watkins et al

ISBN 10: 1559533137 / ISBN 13: 9781559533133

Published by Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559533137
• ISBN 13: 9781559533133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

*Statistics in Action reflects the latest developments in statistics and employs modern, effective methods to teach this increasingly important topic. * Important concepts, real-world context- Students will learn to conduct, randomize and analyze surveys and experiments.

Review

From the reviews:

"This introductory statistics course uses real problems that can only be solved using statistical methods. It explains in an easily-understood way how to: explore, summarise and display data; how to design experiments and surveys ... ." (Book News on the Internet, January, 2005)

"This book is designed for an introductory statistics course ... . you will be immersed in real problems that can be solved only with statistical methods. You will learn to: explore, summarize, and display data; design surveys and experiments; use probability to understand random behavior; make inferences about populations by looking at samples from those populations; make inferences about the effect of treatments from designed experiments." (Zentralblatt für Didaktik und Mathematik, Februar, 2004)