Intuitive Introductory Statistics

✍ Scribed by Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 984
• Series: Springer Texts in Statistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook is designed to give an engaging introduction to statistics and the art of data analysis. The unique scope includes, but also goes beyond, classical methodology associated with the normal distribution. What if the normal model is not valid for a particular data set? This cutting-edge approach provides the alternatives. It is an introduction to the world and possibilities of statistics that uses exercises, computer analyses, and simulations throughout the core lessons. These elementary statistical methods are intuitive. Counting and ranking features prominently in the text. Nonparametric methods, for instance, are often based on counts and ranks and are very easy to integrate into an introductory course.​ The ease of computation with advanced calculators and statistical software, both of which factor into this text, allows important techniques to be introduced earlier in the study of statistics. This book's novel scope also includes measuring symmetry with Walsh averages, finding a nonparametric regression line, jackknifing, and bootstrapping​. Concepts and techniques are explored through practical problems. Quantitative reasoning is at the core of so many professions and academic disciplines, and this book opens the door to the most modern possibilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Exploratory Data Analysis: Observing Patterns and Departures from Patterns (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 1-142
Exploring Bivariate and Categorical Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 143-198
Designing a Survey or Experiment: Deciding What and How to Measure (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 199-241
Understanding Random Events: Producing Models Using Probability and Simulation (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 243-330
Sampling Distributions and Approximations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 331-415
Statistical Inference: Estimating Probabilities and Testing and Confirming Models (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 417-535
Statistical Inference for the Center of a Population (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 537-631
Statistical Inference for Matched Pairs or Paired Replicates Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 633-668
Statistical Inference for Two Populations–Independent Samples (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 669-771
Statistical Inference for Two-Way Tables of Count Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 773-837
Statistical Inference for Bivariate Populations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 839-905
Statistical Inference for More Than Two Populations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 907-945
Back Matter ....Pages 947-976

✦ Subjects

Statistical Theory and Methods