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Author Rossman, Allan J.

Title Workshop statistics : discovery with data / Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance
Edition 4th ed
Published Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations
Contents Collecting data and drawing conclusions -- Data and variables -- Data and distributions -- Drawing conclusions from studies -- Random sampling -- Designing experiments -- Summarizing data -- Two-way tables -- Displaying and describing distributions -- Measures of center -- Measures of spread -- More summary measures and graphs -- Randomness in data -- Probability -- Normal distributions -- Sampling distributions: proportions -- Sampling distributions: means -- Central limit theorem and statistical inference -- Inference from data: principles -- Confidence intervals: proportions -- Tests of significance: proportions -- More inference considerations -- Confidence intervals: means -- Test of significence: means -- Inference from data: comparisons -- Comparing two proportions -- Comparing two means -- Analyzing paired data -- Inferences with categorical data -- Goodness-of-fit tests -- Inference for two-way tables -- Relationships in data -- Graphical displays of association -- Correlation coefficient -- Least squares regression -- Inference for correlation and regression
Summary Annotation Allan Rossman's 4th Edition of Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, is enhanced from previous issues with more focus and emphasison collaborative learning. It further requires student observation, and integrates technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. The text offers more flexibility in selecting technology tools for classrooms primarily using technologies other than graphing calculators or FathomTM Dynamic Data software. Furthermore, it presents more standards for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible as well as provides in-depth guidance and resources to support active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy
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Subject Statistics -- Textbooks
Statistics
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Chance, Beth L.
ISBN 9780470542040
0470542047