Introduction to the Practice of Statistics + Student Cd (Extended Version) - Hardcover

Moore, David; McCabe, George P.; Craig, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1429240202 ISBN 13: 9781429240208

Publisher: W H Freeman & Co, 2010

Synopsis

With a focus on data analysis, statistical reasoning, and the way statisticians actually work, IPS has helped to revolutionize the way statistics is taught and brings the much needed power of critical thinking and practical applications to students. IPS is now revised and updated, including 30% new exercises and many new current examples.

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Book Description

With its focus on data analysis, statistical reasoning, and the way statisticians actually work, this text helps to revolutionize the way statistics is taught

About the Author

DAVID S. MOORE Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA, and was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association. He 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 program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He has also served as president of the International Association for Statistical Education and has received the Mathematical Association of America's national award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics.

GEORGE P. McCABE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. His entire professional career has been spent at Purdue, with sabbaticals at Princeton, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, the University of Berne, Switzerland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and the National University of Ireland in Galway. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and was 1998 chair of its section on Statistical Consulting. He has served on the editorial boards of several statistics journals. He has consulted with many major corporations and has testified as an expert witness on the use of statistics in several legal cases.

BRUCE CRAIG Director of the Statistical Consulting Service at Purdue University, USA (following George McCabe). This along with his strong academic research credentials and his many years of teaching statistics at all levels provide the academic experience and contemporary real data from the center's consulting that lecturers have grown to expect in this textbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1429240202
• ISBN 13: 9781429240208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 694