Statistics: Concepts and Controversies - Softcover

Moore, David S.

 
9780716728634: Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

Synopsis

David S. Moore updates his best-selling liberal arts statistics text while maintaining the emphasis on applications to a wide range of fields, from public policy to the sciences. The streamlined Fourth Edition follows the time-proven data analysis approach that established this text as the leader in the field and introduces helpful pedagogical features and new illustrations. "...It will give nonmathematical readers critical insight into the uses and misuses of numbers and quantitative arguments that are increasingly being used in fields ranging from sociology to medicine to literary analysis." L'Enseignement Mathimatique "This book is a 'good read' too and gives useful background information to teachers and students on any beginning course on statistics at A level or college level." Teaching Statistics

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Synopsis

David S. Moore updates his best-selling liberal arts statistics text while maintaining the emphasis on applications to a wide range of fields, from public policy to the sciences. The streamlined Fourth Edition follows the time-proven data analysis approach that established this text as the leader in the field and introduces helpful pedagogical features and new illustrations. "...It will give nonmathematical readers critical insight into the uses and misuses of numbers and quantitative arguments that are increasingly being used in fields ranging from sociology to medicine to literary analysis." L'Enseignement Mathimatique "This book is a 'good read' too and gives useful background information to teachers and students on any beginning course on statistics at A level or college level." Teaching Statistics

About the Author

DAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. He received his A.B. from Princeton (1962) and the Ph.D. from Cornell (1967), both in Mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as programme director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He was 1998 President of the American Statistical Association.

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