STATISTICS The Art and Science of Learning from Data

• Main Authors: Agresti, Alan (Author), Franklin, Christine A. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson Prentice Hall 2009; ©2007
• Edition: SECOND EDITION
• Subjects: Statistics > Textbooks
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• Physical Description: xxv, 693 pages illustrations (some color) 28 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 97801311357464; 0131357468

KEY MESSAGE: Alan Agresti and Chris Franklin have merged their research and classroom experience to develop this successful introductory statistics text. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Second Edition helps readers become statistically literate by encouraging them to ask and answer interesting statistical questions. It takes the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science in modern life and makes them accessible and engaging to readers without compromising necessary rigor. 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 AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; Probability in our Daily Lives; Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; INFERENCE STATISTICS; Statistical Infere