Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference
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.

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Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference
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.

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Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference

Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference

Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference

Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471329367
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Pages: 640
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Christopher J. Wild, University of Auckland
George A. F. Seber, University of Auckland

Table of Contents

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.
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