Statistics : learning from data – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9781337558082,9781337558402,9781337558426,9781337558853,1337558087,1337558400,1337558427,1337558850
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1337558087
- ISBN-13 : 978-1337558082
- Author: Roxy Peck , Tom Short
STATISTICS: LEARNING FROM DATA, Second Edition, helps you learn to think like a statistician. It pays particular attention to areas that students often struggle with — probability, hypothesis testing, and selecting an appropriate method of analysis. Supported by learning objectives, real-data examples and exercises, and technology notes, this book helps you to develop conceptual understanding, mechanical proficiency, and the ability to put knowledge into practice.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Getting things done in proportion : categorical data and percentages
Summarizing and communicating numbers, lots of numbers
Why are we looking at data anyway? : populations and measurement
What causes what?
Modelling relationships using regression
Algorithms, analytics and prediction
How sure can we be about what is going on? : estimates and intervals
Probability : the language of uncertainty and variability
Putting probability and statistics together
Answering questions and claiming discoveries
Learning from experience the Bayesian way
How things go wrong
How we can do statistics better
In conclusion.
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