Statistics - Hardcover

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KEY MESSAGE: This book offers a trusted, comprehensive introduction to statistics that emphasizes inference and integrates real data throughout. The authors stress the development of statistical thinking, the assessment of credibility, and value of the inferences made from data. The Twelfth Edition infuses a new focus on ethics, which is critically important when working with statistical data. Chapter Summaries have a new, study-oriented design.   KEY TOPICS: Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking, Methods for Describing Sets of Data, Probability, Discrete Random Variables, Continuous Random Variables, Sampling Distributions, Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals, Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis, Inferences Based on a Two Samples: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses, Analysis of Variance: Comparing More Than Two Means, Simple Linear Regression, Multiple Regression and Model Building, Categorical Data Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics   MARKET: For all readers interested in introductory statistics; assumes a mathematical background of basic algebra.

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