Statistics: Concepts & Controversies w/EESEE Access Card

by Moore, David S.; Notz, William I.

• ISBN13: 9781464125669
• ISBN10: 146412566X
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2012-11-09
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Summary

No textbook communicates the basics of statistical analysis to liberal arts students as effectively as the bestselling Statistics: Concepts and Controversies (SCC).  And no text makes it easier for these students to understand and talk about statistical claims they encounter in commercials, campaigns, the media, sports, and elsewhere in their lives. 

The new edition offers SCC’s signature combination of engaging cases, real-life examples and exercises, helpful pedagogy, rich full-color design, and innovative media learning tools, all significantly updated.

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Table of Contents

1. Where Do Data Come From?
2. Samples, Good and Bad
3. What Do Samples Tell Us?
4. Sample Surveys in the Real World
5. Experiments, Good and Bad
6. Experiments in the Real World
7. Data Ethics
8. Measuring
9. Do the Numbers Make Sense
10. Graphs, Good and Bad
11. Displaying Distributions with Graphs
12. Describing Distributions with Numbers
13. Normal Distributions
14. Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
15. Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
16. The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
17. Thinking about Chance
|18. Probability Models
19. Simulation
20. The House Edge: Expected Values
21. What Is a Confidence Interval?
22. What Is a Test of Significance?
23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square Test