Learning Statistics through Playing Cards - Softcover

Knapp, Thomas R.

 
9780761901099: Learning Statistics through Playing Cards

Synopsis

By using a simple pack of playing cards, the author of this book explains the important concepts of statistics covering many of the topics included in introductory statistics courses.

He demonstrates: populations and variables; parameters; percentages; probability and sampling; sampling distribution; estimation; hypothesis testing; and two-by-two tables. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises to help the student manipulate the concept under discussion. Answers are included at the back of the text.

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Review

"This is a novel approach handling all the basic approaches to statistics―populations, parameters, hypothesis testing, one- and two-tailed tests, contingency tables, etc., and all with a pack of 52 cards. Even exercises are included." 

(John G. Taylor DDA-Nyt)

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ISBN 10:  0761901086 ISBN 13:  9780761901082
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996
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