Elementary Statistics

From Discovery to Decision

Marilyn K. Pelosi, Theresa Sandifer

978 pages, parution le 24/02/2003

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Résumé

When you purchase a NEW copy of ELEMENTARY STATISTICS From Discovery to Decision, you're not just getting a text, you're getting access to a host of data files, tutorials, and other CD-based resources!

The free CD-Rom that is part of this text package contains the following key resources that are essential to your success:

The real-world Data Sets are linked to various exercises and problems in the text.
PowerPoint Slides illustrate key concepts from the text. These handy outline slides can be used for taking notes in class!
Excel Interactive: Tutorials for Statistics provide hands-on training in the basic functions of Microsoft Excel. Be an Excel expert in record time!
KADDSTAT is a menu-driven, statistical analysis plug-in for Excel, designed to provide "point and click" computational capability to perform graphical analysis, descriptive statistics, and inferential model analysis activities.

Contents

Introduction: The Role of Statistics in Life
The Language of Statistics
Graphical Displays of Data
Numerical Descriptors of Data
Analyzing Bivariate Data
Probability
Random Variables and Probability Distributions
Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction
Inferences: More One-Population Tests
Comparing Two Populations
Regression Analysis
Multiple Regression Models
Experimental Design and ANOVA
The Analysis of Qualitative Data
Nonparametric Statistics
Making Your Case

Appendix A. Statistical Tables
Appendix B. Explanation of Large Data Sets
Appendix C. Conditional Probability and Bayes' Rule
Appendix D. The Poisson Probability Distribution
Appendix E. Exercises Appendix

L'auteur - Marilyn K. Pelosi

Dr. Marilyn Pelosi is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at Western New England College in Springfield, MA. Dr. Pelosi, a Rhode Island native graduated from Brown University, where she met her husband. She received her PhD. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, where she met co-author Terry Sandifer. Dr. Pelosi has worked as a statistician for the government in Washington DC., and taught Industrial Engineering at Western New England College before moving to her current position in the School of Business. Dr. Pelosi is known for her enthusiastic teaching style and for using real data from consulting projects in the classroom. Dr. Pelosi has two children and enjoys reading, traveling, and watching movies.

L'auteur - Theresa Sandifer

Dr. Terry Sandifer is a Professor of Mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She graduated from Iona College and received her PhD. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts, where she met both her husband and Dr. Pelosi. She continued her career teaching Industrial Engineering at Western New England College with Dr. Pelosi. Dr. Sandifer then spend five years working as a statistician for the Kimberly Clark Corporation before returning to teaching. A Brooklyn, NY, native, Dr. Sandifer has two children and enjoys reading, shopping, and playing video games.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Marilyn K. Pelosi, Theresa Sandifer
Parution	24/02/2003
Nb. de pages	978
Format	22 x 28,3
Couverture	Relié
Poids	2300g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780471401421
ISBN13	978-0-471-40142-1