Statistics : concepts and controversies /: concepts and controversies. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David S. Moore, Purdue University, William I. Notz, The Ohio State University.
• Authors: Notz, William
• Other Names: Moore, David S
• Contents: Part I: Producing data. Where do data come from? ; Samples, good and bad ; What do samples tell us? ; Sample surveys in the real world ; Experiments, good and bad ; Experiments in the real world ; Data ethics ; Measuring ; Do the numbers make sense? -- Part II: Organizing data. Graphs, good and bad ; Displaying distributions with graphs ; Describing distributions with numbers ; Normal distributions ; Describing relationships : scatterplots and correlation ; Describing relationships : regression, prediction, and causation ; The consumer price index and government statistics -- Part III: Chance. Thinking about chance ; Probability models ; Simulation ; The house edge : expected values -- Part IV: Inference. What is a confidence interval? ; What is a test of significance? ; Use and abuse of statistical inference ; Two-way tables and the chi-square test -- Part V: Review.
• Publisher Details: New York : WH Freeman
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (672 pages)
• Subjects: 519.5; Statistics; Mathematical statistics; Mathematics -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Probability & statistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781319202071
• Related ISBNs: 9781464192937
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