For courses in introductory statistics.

 

The art and science of learning from data

Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data takes a conceptual approach,helping students understand what statistics is about and learning the rightquestions to ask when analyzing data, rather than just memorizing procedures.This book takes the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science inmodern life and makes them accessible, without compromising the necessaryrigor. Students will enjoy reading this book, and will stay engaged with itswide variety of real-world data in the examples and exercises.

 

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PART I: GATHERING AND EXPLORING DATA

  1. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
  2. Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries
  3. Exploring Relationships Between Two Variables
  4. Gathering Data

PART II: PROBABILITY, PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS, AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS

  1. Probability in Our Daily Lives
  2. Sampling Distributions

PART III: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

  1. Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals
  2. Statistical Inference: Significance Tests About Hypotheses
  3. Comparing Two Groups

PART IV: ANALYZING ASSOCIATION AND EXTENDED STATISTICAL METHODS

  1. Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables
  2. Analyzing the Association Between Quantitative Variables: Regression Analysis
  3. Multiple Regression
  4. Comparing Groups: Analysis of Variance Methods
  5. Nonparametric Statistics
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Hallmark features of this title
  • The authors give greater attention to the analysis of proportions than many other introductory statistics texts. Concepts are introduced first with categorical data, and then with quantitative data. 
  • The importance of the statistical investigative process is emphasized in Chapter 1.
  • Featured examples and exercises throughout use the most recent data available.
  • The approach emphasizes using interval estimation for inference with less reliance on significance testing, and incorporates the 2016 American Statistical Association's statement on P-values.
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New and updated features of this titleNew and updated content reflects the importance of the statistical investigative process in data analysis.
  • The updated content in Chapter 1 offers an additional introduction to the opportunities and challenges with Big Data and Data Science, including a discussion of ethical considerations.
  • A new section in Chapter 2 refers to the main features of linear transformations.
  • There is further emphasis on the two descriptive statistics, most likely encountered by students in their daily lives (differences and ratios of proportions) in Section 3.1.
  • An expanded discussion on multivariate thinking is presented in Section 3.3.
  • A significantly expanded coverage of resampling methods, with a thorough discussion of the bootstrap for one and two-sample problems and the correlation coefficient, in new Sections 7.3, 8.3, and 10.3.
  • Continued emphasis on using interval estimation for inference and less reliance on significance testing incorporates the 2016 American Statistical Association’s statement on P-values.
  • A new section on statistical software at the end of each chapter provides commented R code, showing students how the analysis can be replicated and carried out in the statistical software R.
  • Many new and updated featured examples and exercises use the most recent data available.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781292444741
Publisert
2023-02-16
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson Education Limited
Vekt
1900 gr
Høyde
275 mm
Bredde
215 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Kombinasjonsprodukt

Biografisk notat

Alan Agresti is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He taught statistics there for 38 years, including the development of e-courses in statistical methods for social science students and three courses in categorical data analysis.

He is the author of more than 100 refereed articles and six texts, including Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (Pearson, 5th edition, 2018) and An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley, 3rd edition, 2019). Alan has also received teaching awards from the University of Florida and an Excellence in Writing award from John Wiley & Sons.

Christine Franklin is the K-12 Statistics Ambassador for the American Statistical Association and elected ASA Fellow. She has retired from the University of Georgia as the Lothar Tresp Honoratus Honors Professor and Senior Lecturer Emerita in Statistics.

She is the co-author of two textbooks and has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters. Chris was the lead writer for the American Statistical Association Pre-K-12 Guidelines for the Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Framework document, co-chair for the updated Pre-K-12 GAISE II, and chair of the ASA Statistical Education of Teachers (SET) report.

Bernhard Klingenberg is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Williams College, where he has been teaching introductory and advanced statistics classes since 2004. He teaches statistical inference and modelling as well as data visualisation at the Graduate Data Science Program at New College of Florida.

Prof. Klingenberg is responsible for the development of the web apps, which he programs using the R package Shiny. A native of Austria, he frequently returns there to hold visiting positions at universities and gives short courses on categorical data analysis in Europe and the United States. He also enjoys photography, with some of his pictures appearing in this book.