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Statistics : concepts and controversies / David S. Moore.
By: Moore, David
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BookPublisher: New York : W.H. Freeman, c1991Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvii, 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0716721996; 9780716721994.Subject(s): Statistics | Science: general issuesDDC classification: 519.5 MOO
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A statistics book for readers interested in ideas rather than technique. It presents, in a non-technical form, statistical concepts as they are applied in public policy, the human sciences, and everyday life. It is designed to give readers critical insight into the uses and misuses of numbers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Discipline
- Prelude: Making Sense of Data
- I Producing Data
- 1 Where Do Data Come From?
- 2 Samples, Good and Bad
- 3 What Do Samples Tell Us?
- 4 Sample Surveys in the Real World
- 5 Experiments, Good and Bad
- 6 Experiments in the Real World
- 7 Data Ethics
- 8 Measuring
- 9 Do the Numbers Make Sense?
- Review I: Producing Data
- II Organizing Data
- 10 Graphs Good and Bad
- 11 Displaying Distributions with Graphs
- 12 Describing Distributions with Numbers
- 13 Normal Distributions
- 14 Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
- 15 Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
- 16 The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
- Review II: Organizing Data
- III Chance
- 17 Thinking about Chance
- 18 Probability Models
- 19 Simulation
- 20 The House Edge: Expected Values
- Review III: Chance
- IV Inference
- 21 What is a Confidence Interval?
- 22 What is a Test of Significance?
- 23 Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
- 24 Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test
- 25 Inference About a Population Means
- Part IV Review
Author notes provided by Syndetics
David S. Moore is a professor of psychology at Pitzer College and at Claremont Graduate University. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology from Harvard University and did his postdoctoral work at the City University of New York.