
- 576 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Statistics: Principles and Methods, 8th Edition provides students and business professionals with a comprehensive introduction to statistics concepts, terminology, and methods with a wide array of practical applications. Real-world data provides an easily relatable frame of reference, while numerous examples reinforce key ideas and demonstrate critical concepts to help ease student comprehension. Designed for those seeking a highly practical introduction to statistical measurement, reasoning, and analysis, this book requires no specific mathematical background and leaves derivations behind in favor of logic, reasoning, and modern statistics software.
Concepts are introduced first in a real-life setting to illustrate immediate relevancy, and are subsequently expanded to relate underlying mechanisms, limitations, and further applications. An emphasis on the relationship between validity and assumptions underscores the importance of critical thinking and the use of appropriate models while instilling thoughtful habits that lead to accuracy in interpretation. Going beyond the typical introductory text to keep the focus on application, this book gives students a deeper understanding of statistics as it is used every day across disciplines and industries.
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Table of contents
- cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics
- Chapter 2 Organization and Description of Data
- Chapter 3 Descriptive Study of Bivariate Data
- Chapter 4 Probability
- Chapter 5 Probability Distributions
- Chapter 6 The Normal Distribution
- Chapter 7 Variation in Repeated SamplesāSampling Distributions
- Chapter 8 Drawing Inferences from Large Samples
- Chapter 9 Small Sample Inferences for Normal Populations
- Chapter 10 Comparing Two Treatments
- Chapter 11 Regression Analysis I Simple Linear Regression
- Chapter 12 Regression Analysis II Multiple Linear Regression and Other Topics
- Chapter 13 Analysis of Categorical Data
- Chapter 14 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Chapter 15 Nonparametric Inference
- Appendix A1 Summation Notation
- Appendix A2 Rules for Counting
- Appendix A3 Expectation and Standard DeviationāProperties
- Appendix A4 The Expected Value and Standard Deviation of X
- Appendix B Tables
- Data Bank
- Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Exercises
- Index
- EULA