Stats : Data and Models
by De Veaux, Richard D.; Velleman, Paul F.; Bock, David E.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover w/CD
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Addison Wesley
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Key Message: Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition,carries on a conversation with readers, intriguing and challenging them to read the text and have fun learning statistics. Lauded by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension,Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition,focuses on statistical thinking and data analysis, emphasizing how statistics helps us to understand our world. The text incorporates compelling examples derived from the authorsrs" wealth of consulting experience and encourages readers to learn how to reason with data. Key Topics: Exploring and Understanding Data, Exploring Relationships between Variables, Gathering Data, Randomness and Probability, From The Data at Hand to the World at Large, Learning About the World, Modeling the World Market: For all readers interested in statistics.
Table of Contents
| Exploring and Understanding Data | |
| Stats Starts Here | |
| Data | |
| Displaying and Describing Categorical Data | |
| Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data | |
| Understanding and Comparing Distributions | |
| The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model | |
| Exploring Relationships between Variables | |
| Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation | |
| Linear Regression | |
| Regression Wisdom | |
| Re-expressing Data: Get It Straight! | |
| Gathering Data | |
| Understanding Randomness | |
| Sample Surveys | |
| Experiments and Observational Studies | |
| Randomness and Probability | |
| From Randomness to Probability | |
| Probability Rules! | |
| Random Variables | |
| Probability Models | |
| From The Data at Hand to the World at Large | |
| Sampling Distribution Models | |
| Confidence Intervals for Proportions | |
| Testing Hypotheses About Proportions | |
| More About Tests | |
| Comparing Two Proportions | |
| Learning About the World | |
| Inferences About Means | |
| Comparing Means | |
| Paired Samples and Blocks | |
| Comparing Counts | |
| Modeling the World | |
| Inferences for Regression | |
| Analysis of Variance | |
| Multifactor Analysis of Variance | |
| Multiple Regression | |
| Multiple Regression Wisdom | |
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