The Basic Practice of Statistics

Book Detail

Author/Editor(s): David Moore
Publication Date: January 15, 2009
ISBN-10: 1429224266
ISBN-13: 978-1429224260
Language: English
Edition: 5
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Size: 19.8 MB
Format: pdf

Book Description

The Basic Practice of Statistics has become a bestselling textbook by focusing on how statistics are gathered, analyzed, and applied to real problems and situations—and by confronting student anxieties about the course’s relevance and difficulties head on.

With David Moore’s pioneering "data analysis" approach (emphasizing statistical thinking over computation), engaging narrative and case studies, current problems and exercises, and an accessible level of mathematics, there is no more effective textbook for showing students what working statisticians do and what accurate interpretations of data can reveal about the world we live in.

In the new edition, you will once again see how everything fits together. As always, Moore’s text offers balanced content, beginning with data analysis, then covering probability and inference in the context of statistics as a whole. It provides a wealth of opportunities for students to work with data from a wide range of disciplines and real-world settings, emphasizing the big ideas of statistics in the context of learning specific skills used by professional statisticians. Thoroughly updated throughout, the new edition offers new content, features, cases, data sources, and exercises, plus new media support for instructors and students—including the latest version of the widely-adopted StatsPortal.

The full picture of the contemporary practice of statistics has never been so captivatingly presented to an uninitiated audience.

About the Author

David S. Moore is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. He received his BA from Princeton (1962), USA and PhD from Cornell (1967), USA, both in Mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. 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 Programme Director for Statistics and Probability at the National Science Foundation. He was the 1998 President of the American Statistical Association.

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Have to have this text for an online college statistics course I am taking. Text is well written. It presents the concepts in a clear and through fashion making it easy to learn the material. Would recommend it even if you are not taking a course and just wanted to teach yourself a basic grasp of statistics. With this text you can do it.

--Amazon Customer Reviews

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