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Statistics : concepts and controversies
- Title
- Statistics : concepts and controversies / David S. Moore, William I. Notz.
- Author
- Moore, David S.
- Publication
- New York : W.H. Freeman, ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QA276.12 .M66 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Notz, William.
- Description
- xxxv, 607 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Producing date. Where do data come from? ; Samples, good and bad ; What do samples tell us? ; Sample surveys in the real world ; Experiments, good and bad ; Experiments in the real world ; Data ethics ; Measuring ; Do the numbers make sense? -- Part II: Organizing data. Graphs, good and bad ; Displaying distributions with graphs ; Describing distributions with numbers ; Normal distributions ; Describing relationships : scatterplots and correlation ; Describing relationships : regression, prediction, and causation ; The Consumer Price Index and government statistics -- Part III: Chance. Thinking about chance ; Probability models ; Simulation ; The house edge : expected values -- Part IV: Inference. What is a confidence interval? ; What is a test of significance? ; Use and abuse of statistical inference ; Two-way tables and the chi-square test.
- ISBN
- 9781429229913
- 1429229918
- 1429237023
- 9781429237024
- LCCN
- 2008932369
- OCLC
- ocn301812418
- 301812418
- SCSB-1539489
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library