Text combines lucid and statistically engaging exposition, graphic and poignantly applied examples, realistic exercise settings to take student past the mechanics of introductory-level statistical techniques into the realm of practical data analysis and inference-based problem solving.
By:
C. J. Wild (University of Auckland New Zealand), George A. F. Seber (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 258mm,
Width: 212mm,
Spine: 37mm
Weight: 1.400kg ISBN:9780471329367 ISBN 10: 0471329363 Pages: 640 Publication Date:16 November 1999 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
What Is Statistics? Tools for Exploring Univariate Data. Exploratory Tools for Relationships. Probabilities and Proportions. Discrete Random Variables. Continuous Random Variables. Sampling Distributions of Estimates. Confidence Intervals. Significance Testing: Using Data to Test Hypotheses. Data on a Continuous Variable. Tables of Counts. Relationships between Quantitative Variables: Regression and Correlation. Control Charts. Time Series. Appendices. References. Answers to Selected Problems. Index.
Christopher J. Wild, University of Auckland George A. F. Seber, University of Auckland
Reviews for Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference
...a superb book...Wild & Seber have now raised the standard of introductory textbooks another notch. (Australian & New Zealand, 2000)