Intermediate Statistical Investigations
Nathan Tintle, Beth L. Chance, Karen McGaughey, Soma Roy, Todd Swanson, Jill VanderStoep
- 608 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Intermediate Statistical Investigations
Nathan Tintle, Beth L. Chance, Karen McGaughey, Soma Roy, Todd Swanson, Jill VanderStoep
About This Book
Intermediate Statistical Investigations ?provides?a unified framework for explaining variation across study designs and variable types, helping students increase their statistical literacy and appreciate the indispensable role of statistics in scientific research.?Requiring only a single introductory statistics course as a prerequisite, ?the program?usesthe?immersive, simulation-based inference?approach?for which the?author team is known.Students engage with various aspects of data collection andanalysis using real examples and clear explanationsdesigned?to?strengthen?multivariable?understandingandreinforce first-course concepts.
Each chapter contains in-depth exercises?which?follow a consistent?six-stepstatisticalexploration andinvestigation method(ask a research question, design a study, explore the data, draw inferences, formulate conclusions, and look back and ahead)enabling students to assess a variety of concepts in a single assignment. Challenging questionsbased onresearch articles strengthen critical reading skills, fullyworkedexamplesdemonstrate?essential?concepts and methods, and engaging visualizations illustrate key themes of explained variation. End-of-chapter investigationsuserealdatafrom popularculture?andpublished research studies?in?avariety of disciplines, exposingstudentsto various applicationsof statistics in the real world.?Throughout the text, user-friendly?Rossman Chance?webappletsallowstudents to conduct?the?simulations and analyses covered in the book.