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Mind on Statistics - Hardcover

Utts, Jessica M.; Heckard, Robert

 
9780534359355: Mind on Statistics

Synopsis

MIND ON STATISTICS is designed to help students learn statistical ideas by encouraging them to actively think about those ideas. The authors blend the spirit of statistical literacy (the conceptual development of statistical ideas) with the statistical methodology taught in the Introductory Statistics course. By focusing on ideas instead of mathematical formulation, this book generates student excitement, motivation, and understanding. Using a wide variety of applications, the book clearly demonstrates the relevance of statistics. As students master the material, they see how statistics influences their daily lives. The text also helps students develop statistical intuition and learn how to interpret the results of statistical studies.

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Synopsis

This text was designed to help students learn statistical ideas by actively thinking about them. Utts (U. of California, Davis) and Heckard (Pennsylvania State U.) discuss the nature of statistics and cover how to gather useful data, turn data into information, conduct surveys, ask questions, and discover relationships between quantitative and cate

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