Introduction to Statistics: The Nonparametric Way (Springer Texts in Statistics) - Hardcover

Noether, Gottfried E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387972846 ISBN 13: 9780387972848

Publisher: Springer, 1990

Synopsis

The introductory statistics course presents serious pedagogical problems to the instructor. For the great majority of students, the course represents the only formal contact with statistical thinking that he or she will have in college. Students come from many different fields of study, and a large number suffer from math anxiety. Thus, an instructor who is willing to settle for some limited objectives will have a much better chance of success than an instructor who aims for a broad exposure to statistics. Many statisticians agree that the primary objective of the introductory statistics course is to introduce students to variability and uncertainty and how to cope with them when drawing inferences from observed data. Addi­ tionally, the introductory COurse should enable students to handle a limited number of useful statistical techniques. The present text, which is the successor to the author's Introduction to Statistics: A Nonparametric Approach (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1976), tries to meet these objectives by introducing the student to the ba­ sic ideas of estimation and hypothesis testing early in the course after a rather brief introduction to data organization and some simple ideas about probability. Estimation and hypothesis testing are discussed in terms of the two-sample problem, which is both conceptually simpler and more realistic than the one-sample problem that customarily serves as the basis for the discussion of statistical inference.

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"The text is well-written and provides some unique approaches ÄwhichÜ will be appreciated by the students."
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Synopsis

Text for an introductory course for non-majors exploits nonparametric ideas and treatments, followed by the corresponding classical normal-theory treatment. Most of the problems can be solved with a basic calculator, but most chapters have an appendix discussing relevant commands in Minitab Release 6.1 for MS-DOS microcomputers. Annotation copyrigh

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387972846
• ISBN 13: 9780387972848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 427