Statistics : The Conceptual Approach / / by Gudmund R. Iversen, Mary Gergen

• Autore: Iversen Gudmund R
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1997.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVIII, 735 p.)
• Disciplina: 519.5
• Soggetto topico: Statistics; Probabilities; Probability Theory
• Persona (resp. second.): GergenMary
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Statistics -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Statistics -- CHAPTER 1 -- STATISTICS: RANDOMNESS AND REGULARITY 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- COLLECTION OF DATA 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- DESCRIPTION OF DATA: GRAPHS AND TABLES 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- DESCRIPTION OF DATA: COMPUTING SUMMARY STATISTICS 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- PROBABILITY 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: ESTIMATION 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: HYPOTHESIS TESTING 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS FOR TWO CATEGORICAL VARIABLES 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- REGRESSION AND CORRELATION FOR TWO METRIC VARIABLES 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- ANOVA: ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR A CATEGORICAL AND A METRIC VARIABLE 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- RANK METHODS FOR TWO RANK VARIABLES 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- STATISTICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE 14 -- GLOSSARY -- STATISTICAL TABLES -- ANSWERS TO ODD-NUMBERED EXERCISES -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: discussed in this book. It is clear that with an understanding of the main ideas of statistics, engaged citizens can grasp what the professional number crunchers have produced and evaluate the results. This book grew out of a course designed by Gudmund R. Iversen to meet the challenges created by this greater reliance on statistical It was one of a series of courses designed at Swarthmore information. College to fulfill the mission of a liberal arts college to educate its students for the challenges of the twenty-first century. The idea was that students should not become so involved with the intricacies of a single discipline that they lose sight of the big picture. These courses were intended to educate students to understand how the major ideas of a field relate to the world. In many respects statistics seemed an ideal subject for one such course. While statistics could be a mystifying, self­ aggrandized, and esoteric discipline, it could also be a key to under­ standing many other disciplines. The course, Stat 1: Statistical Think­ ing, was created to produce this understanding. The course proved to be very popular, and each year it grew in size. Over time the lecture notes for the course became more refined and extensive, and eventu­ ally the course material served as the basis for this book. Fonnulas As most statistics instructors are keenly aware, the teaching of statistics has changed dramatically.
• Titolo autorizzato: Statistics
• ISBN: 1-4612-2244-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973859303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Springer Undergraduate Textbooks in Statistics