Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data

<p> <b>KEY MESSAGE</b>: Alan Agresti and Chris Franklin have merged their research and classroom experience to develop this successful introductory statistics text. <b>Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Second Edition</b> helps readers become statistically literate by encouraging them to ask and answer interesting statistical questions. It takes the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science in modern life and makes them accessible and engaging to readers without compromising necessary rigor.</p> <p> </p> <p> <b>KEY TOPICS</b>: GATHERING and EXPLORING DATA; Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data; Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries; Association: Contingency, Correlation, and Regression; Gathering Data; PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; Probability in our Daily Lives; Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; INFERENCE STATISTICS; Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals; Statistical Inference: Significance Tests about Hypotheses; Comparing Two Groups; ANALYZING ASSOCIATIONS AND EXTENDED STATISTICAL METHODS; Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables; Analyzing the Association Between Quantitative Variables: Regression Analysis; Multiple Regression; Comparing Groups: Analysis of Variance Methods; Nonparametric Statistics</p> <p> </p> <p> <b>MARKET</b>: for all readers interested in statistics.</p>