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Discovering Statistics

Third Edition ©2016 Daniel T. Larose

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Dan Larose’s Discovering Statistics strikes the ideal balance of conceptual application and computational understanding to develop students’ statistical sense and enable them to discover the statistician within.

Discovering Statistics is now supported by Sapling Intro Stats, a powerful online homework system in which every problem is an opportunity for a student to learn through meaningful hints, targeted feedback, and detailed solutions. Sapling Intro Stats provides students with support to navigate their homework and ultimately understand statistical concepts and calculations.

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New to This Edition

60% New and Revised Examples and 50% New and Updated Exercises
The new edition features over 4,100 exercises with options for all learning levels and styles. Examples and exercises cover a wide range of applications and use current, real data.


Expanded Technology Support
Step-by-Step Technology Guides at the end of most sections now include instructions and output screens for JMP and SPSS Statistical Software.


Your Turn
About half of the examples now conclude with a small set of exercises that can be used for assignments or self-testing review.


Check It Out
This feature at the end of a section ties Practicing the Techniques exercises back to specific examples in the chapter, helping students engage with the text and helping instructors more easily organize and assign exercises.


Eight brand new Chapter Case Studies
Topics include video game sales and clothing store sales.


LaunchPad
Built around the most common issues teachers face, LaunchPad provides students with everything they need to prepare for class and exams. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything needed to quickly set up a course (using pre-built units), customize content to a syllabus, craft presentations and lectures, assign and assess readings and activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.


With LaunchPad all online resources for the text are housed in one location, including:

  • An interactive e-Book combining a complete, online version of the textbook with digital assets linked at point of use.

  • LearningCurve provides students and instructors with powerful adaptive quizzing, a game-like format, direct links to the e-Book, and instant feedback.

    Statboard Examples illustrating difficult topics through stepped-out whiteboard explanations.

  • Statistical Software offerings include W.H.Freeman’s own CrunchIt!®, powered by R, and JMP Student Edition. Both options include pre-loaded data sets.

  • New Video Technology Manuals available for TI-83/84 calculators, Minitab, Excel, JMP, SPSS, R, Rcmdr, and CrunchIt!® provide brief instructions for using specific statistical software through short video clips.

Plus:

  • Statistical Video Series
  • StatTutor tutorials
  • Statistical Applets
  • Stats@Work Simulations
  • EESEE case studies

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Table of Contents

1. The Nature of Statistics

2. Describing Data Using Graphs and Tables

3. Describing Data Numerically

4. Correlation and Regression

5. Probability

6. Probability Distributions

7. Sampling Distributions

8. Confidence Intervals

9. Hypothesis Testing

10. Two-Sample Inference

11. Categorical Data Analysis

12. Analysis of Variance

13. Inference in Regression


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14. Nonparametric Statistics

Daniel T. Larose

Since his days of collecting baseball cards as a youngster, Dan Larose has felt a lifelong passion for statistics. He completed his PhD in statistics from the University of Connecticut in Storrs in 1996. Today, Larose is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Central Connecticut State University. There, he designed, developed, and directs the world’s first online Master of Science degree in data mining. He has published three books on data mining, and is a consultant in statistics and data mining. His fondest wish is to impart a love of statistics to a new generation. Larose lives in Tolland, Connecticut, with his wife Debra, daughters Chantal and Ravel, and son, Tristan.

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Daniel T. Larose | Third Edition | ©2016 | ISBN:9781319057015

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