Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data - Hardcover

Watkins, Ann E.; Scheaffer, Richard L.; Cobb, George W.

9781931914277: Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931914273 ISBN 13: 9781931914277

Publisher: Key College, 2004

Statistics in Action promotes a modern, data-analytic approach to learning statistics that allows students to uncover, display, and explore patterns in data. Most data sets are real-based on up-to-date research, historical case studies, and student-collected data. Students use tools systematically to build a coherent description of data-set patterns and to describe patterns in the language of their applied contexts.

The text relies heavily on technology and it shifts from memorizing formulas to learning concepts first through activities, then through an informal graphical approach, and then via a more formal definition. This method motivates students and increases their knowledge.

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"This introductory statistics course uses real problems that can only be solved using statistical methods. It explains in an easily-understood way how to: explore, summarise and display data; how to design experiments and surveys ... ." (Book News on the Internet, January, 2005)

"This book is designed for an introductory statistics course ... . you will be immersed in real problems that can be solved only with statistical methods. You will learn to: explore, summarize, and display data; design surveys and experiments; use probability to understand random behavior; make inferences about populations by looking at samples from those populations; make inferences about the effect of treatments from designed experiments." (Zentralblatt f�r Didaktik und Mathematik, Februar, 2004)

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