Statistics

Author: Everson
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: What do students hope to learn from a statistics course? Not formulas, techniques, or reasoning, but fundamental concepts and methods that they can apply to their majors and daily lives. This book is an innovative statistics textbook based on this principle, and readers with a middle school education can understand it. Starting with data: How to evaluate the effectiveness of statistics? How are variables defined? What statistical methods are used? What is a "statistically significant" result? Exploring these questions will lead us to the core of statistics. This book will guide students to ask and answer these questions, teaching them how to interpret research results, surveys, election votes, advertising campaigns, and other statistical results hidden in data.
Enlighten Your Imagination: This book avoids purely mathematical descriptions and explains fundamental statistical concepts and the important role statistics play in various fields—such as health, marriage, education, sports, science, and economic activities—through humorous language, clear and intuitive examples. It helps students overcome the obstacles of learning statistics (by not emphasizing formulas and placing more challenging or difficult content at the end of chapters). Using computers and statistical software allows students to free themselves from tedious calculations, enabling them to focus on understanding statistical processes and concepts. Each exercise provides potential themes in statistical results, and odd-numbered answers and various statistical tables are provided at the end of the book. This concise yet rich textbook has been refined through rigorous testing and is highly popular among students. It can serve as a statistics textbook for students in science and engineering, liberal arts, and financial management, as well as a "" or "" resource for practitioners and leaders in various industries.
Introduction to Statistics (Basic Concepts and Methods): This concise yet rich textbook has been refined through rigorous testing and is highly popular among students. It can serve as a statistics textbook for students in science and engineering, liberal arts, and financial management, as well as a "" or "" resource for practitioners and leaders in various industries.