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Key Message: Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition,carries on a conversation with readers, intriguing and challenging them to read the text and have fun learning statistics. Lauded by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension,Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition,focuses on statistical thinking and data analysis, emphasizing how statistics helps us to understand our world. The text incorporates compelling examples derived from the authorsrs" wealth of consulting experience and encourages readers to learn how to reason with data. Key Topics: Exploring and Understanding Data, Exploring Relationships between Variables, Gathering Data, Randomness and Probability, From The Data at Hand to the World at Large, Learning About the World, Modeling the World Market: For all readers interested in statistics.

Exploring and Understanding Data
Stats Starts Here
Data
Displaying and Describing Categorical Data
Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data
Understanding and Comparing Distributions
The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model
Exploring Relationships between Variables
Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation
Linear Regression
Regression Wisdom
Re-expressing Data: Get It Straight!
Gathering Data
Understanding Randomness
Sample Surveys
Experiments and Observational Studies
Randomness and Probability
From Randomness to Probability
Probability Rules!
Random Variables
Probability Models
From The Data at Hand to the World at Large
Sampling Distribution Models
Confidence Intervals for Proportions
Testing Hypotheses About Proportions
More About Tests
Comparing Two Proportions
Learning About the World
Inferences About Means
Comparing Means
Paired Samples and Blocks
Comparing Counts
Modeling the World
Inferences for Regression
Analysis of Variance
Multifactor Analysis of Variance
Multiple Regression
Multiple Regression Wisdom
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Stats : Data and Models

Stats : Data and Models

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