David Moore pioneered the "data analysis" (conceptual) approach for the introductory statistics textbooks. Moore’s The Basic Practice of Statistics became the market-leading bestseller 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.This new Sixth Edition offers the same crystal clear writing and use of real data as past editions, while incorporating new and updated examples and exercises, and presenting new features to support the learning and teaching goals for today’s generation of students.
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.
Here are a few highlights of the revised Sixth Edition: Updated Exercises and Examples: More than 20 percent of all examples and exercises have been revised or updated.
The third edition of The Basic Practice of Statistics builds on the strenghts of the second: a balanced and modern approach to data analysis, data production, and inference; and an...
Supplement to Basic Practice of Statistics
This is the pack for The Basic Practice of Statistics, it includes the textbook and the SaplingPlus 12 month access card.
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This text assumes students have been exposed to intermediate algebra, and it focuses on the applications of statistical knowledge rather than the theory behind it.
About this book Each of the 64 exercises gives a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article, and begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt.
CD-ROM includes: Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises, an interactive quiz for each chapter, video clips and some special electronic statistical tools.