Workshop statistics : discovery with data / Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossman, Allan J.

Contributor:

Chance, Beth L.

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics--Textbooks.

Statistics.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2012]

Summary:

"The Fourth Edition of Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data continues to emphasize collaborative learning and to require student observation. Rather than describing and explaining statistics through exposition alone, Workshop Statistics: Discover with Data offers activities designed to lead students to discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques. The Fourth Edition provides even more guidance and resources for students to support their active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Collecting data and drawing conclusions

Data and variables

Data and distributions

Drawing conclusions from studies

Random sampling

Designing experiments

Friend or foe?

Summarizing data

Two-way tables

Is yawning contagious?

Displaying and describing distributions

Measures of center

Measures of spread

More summary measures and graphs

Memorizing letters

Randomness in data

Probability

Normal distributions

Sampling distributions: proportions

Sampling distributions: means

Central limit theorem and statistical inference

Inference from data: principles

Confidence intervals: proportions

Tests of significance: proportions

More inference considerations

Confidence intervals: means

Test of significence: means

Sleepless nights

Inference from data: comparisons

Comparing two proportions

Comparing two means

Analyzing paired data

Comparison shopping

Inferences with categorical data

Goodness-of-fit tests

Inference for two-way tables

Relationships in data

Graphical displays of association

Correlation coefficient

Least squares regression

Inference for correlation and regression

Backpack weighing you down?

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780470542095

0470542098

9780470542088

047054208X

OCLC:

751745236

Online:

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