Publisher's Synopsis
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Fourth Edition, takes a conceptual approach, helping students understand what statistics is about and learning the right questions to ask when analyzing data, rather than just memorizing procedures. This book takes the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science in modern life and makes them accessible, without compromising the necessary rigor. Students will enjoy reading this book, and will stay engaged with its wide variety of real-world data in the examples and exercises.
The authors believe that it's important for students to learn and analyze both quantitative and categorical data. As a result, the text pays greater attention to the analysis of proportions than many other introductory statistics texts. Concepts are introduced first with categorical data, and then with quantitative data. 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, PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS, AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS-Probability in Our Daily Lives; Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS-Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals; Statistical Inference: Significance Tests About Hypotheses; Comparing Two Groups; ANALYZING ASSOCIATION 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 introductory statistics. 0134101677 / 9780134101675 * Statistics Plus New MyStatLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0321847997 / 9780321847997 * My StatLab Glue-in Access Card 032184839X / 9780321848390 * MyStatLab Inside Sticker for Glue-In Packages 0321997832 / 9780321997838 * Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
