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Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis

Published 26 July 2000
Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen, Jay L. Devore
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Abstract

This textbook uses activities and real-world examples from the fields of health, consumer research, psychology, environmental science, law, and entertainment to explain the use of statistics. Chapters concentrate on elements of statistical analysis like data collection, describing data, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, categorical data, simple linear regression and correlation, multiple regression analysis, and variance.