Statistics for the Utterly Confused
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-135005-1 (ISBN)
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"Statistics for the Utterly Confused" is your user-friendly introduction to elementary statistics, designed especially for non-math majors. The required courses in statistics are cause for alarm among more than 500,000 undergraduates in such disciplines as nursing, allied health, pre-law, pre-medicine, business administration, and criminal justice. This super-accessible book demystifies the dreaded subject for non-math majors. "Statistics for the Utterly Confused" provides a logical, step-by-step approach to introductory statistics, stripping away confusing material and clarifying key concepts without long, theoretical discussion and includes: handy icons throughout the text that offer easy visual aids, and 500 self-testing questions. "Technology Corner" sections explain the latest software. this book provides more than 200 examples and solved problems.
Lloyd R. Jaisingh, Ph.D., is Professor of Mathematics at Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky. He has taught statistics for the past thirteen years at Morehead State University, and has published several articles in applied statistics as well as books dealing with elementary statistics and the use of technology in the classroom. He has received a number of grants and fellowships, and an award as Outstanding Researcher of the Year at Morehead State.
Part I: Descriptive Statistics. Chapter 1. Graphical Displays of Univariate Data. Chapter 2. Data Description - Numerical Measures of Central Tendency for Ungrouped Univariate Data. Chapter 3. Data Description - Numerical Measures of Variability for Ungrouped Univariate Data. Chapter 4. Data Description - Numerical Measures of Position for Ungrouped Univariate Data. Chapter 5. Exploring Bivariate Data. Chapter 6. Exploring Categorical Data. Part II: Probability. Chapter 7. Randomness, Uncertainty, and Probability. Chapter 8. Discrete Probability Distributions. Chapter 9. The Normal Probability Distribution. Chapter 10. Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem. Part III: Statistical Inference. Chapter 11. Confidence Intervals. Chapter 12. Hypothesis Tests - Larg Samples. Chapter 13. Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests -Small Samples. Chapter 14. Chi-Square Procedures. Appendices. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.2000 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 50 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 185 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 572 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-135005-5 / 0071350055 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-135005-1 / 9780071350051 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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