Introductory Statistics

Neil A. Weiss, Neil Weiss, Carol A. Weiss

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2016

ISBN-13: 9780321989178

ISBN-10: 0321989171

Pages: 848

Subjects: Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General

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About Introductory Statistics

Weiss's Introductory Statistics, Tenth Edition, is the ideal textbook for introductory statistics classes that emphasize statistical reasoning and critical thinking. Comprehensive in its coverage, Weiss's meticulous style offers careful, detailed explanations to ease the learning process. With more than 1,000 data sets and over 3,000 exercises, this text takes a data-driven approach that encourages students to apply their knowledge and develop statistical understanding. This text contains parallel presentation of critical-value and p-value approaches to hypothesis testing. This unique design allows the flexibility to concentrate on one approach or the opportunity for greater depth in comparing the two. KEY TOPICS: Introduction; The Nature of Statistics; Descriptive Statistics; Organizing Data; Descriptive Measures; Probability, Random Variables, and Sampling Distributions; Probability Concepts; Discrete Random Variables; The Normal Distribution; The Sampling Distribution of the Sam...

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