Basic Concepts and Methods of Statistics

Author: Wu Xizhi, Cheng Bo, et al
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Publish Date: 2000-03-17
Features: What do students hope to learn from a statistics course? Not formulas, techniques, or reasoning, but fundamental concepts and methods that can be applied to their majors and daily lives. This innovative statistics textbook is based on this principle and is accessible to readers with a middle school education. Starting with data: How to evaluate the effectiveness of statistics? How are variables defined? What statistical methods are used? What does a "statistically significant" result mean? Exploring these questions will lead us to the core of statistics. This book guides students to ask and answer these questions, teaching them how to interpret research results, surveys, election votes, advertising campaigns, and other statistical findings hidden in data.
Enlighten Your Imagination: Avoiding purely mathematical descriptions, this book 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 challenges of learning statistics (by minimizing emphasis on formulas and placing more complex or difficult content at the end of chapters). By using computers and statistical software, students are freed from tedious calculations, allowing them to focus on understanding statistical processes and concepts. Each exercise provides potential themes from statistical results, and odd-numbered answers and various statistical tables are provided at the end of the book.
This concise yet comprehensive 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 finance management, as well as a "" () or "" () resource for practitioners and leaders in various industries and levels.