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Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
First Edition
by Gary Smith, Pomona College

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1998 / 672 pages / hardcover / ISBN 0-07-059276-4

Supplements:

• Student Study Guide with Solutions
• Instructor's Resource Guide
• Printed Testbank
• Computerized Testbank
• SSP Software

Regardless of their areas of study and their paths in life, the students in your introductory statistics course will need to understand how to analyze data and interpret results. Perfect for your one-semester, non-majors course, this user-friendly text is designed with those goals in mind. Author Gary Smith uses an engaging, conversational writing style and real-world examples, exercises, and applications from a broad range of disciplines to give your students a compelling introduction to statistics. Introduction to Statistical Reasoning also keeps mathematical derivations to a minimum and encourages students to use either a calculator or computer to complete computations.

Features of this new text include:

• Chapter-opening "Have You Ever Wondered" boxes preview important statistical principles students will explore in the chapter within a real world setting, and serve as questions for review upon completion of the chapter. Students will ponder historical and contemporary issues related to such topics as the stock market, public opinion polls, and the accuracy of HIV tests.

• Real-world examples and exercises throughout the text apply data to a variety of settings and disciplines, showing students that what they are learning will apply to their lives and careers.

• Chapter 2 (Displaying Data) explores the uses and misuses of statistics, focusing on visual presentation of statistics through graphics such as histograms and stem-and-leaf diagrams. Students will see how these graphics are used correctly and incorrectly in the media so that they can make informed analyses by these methods in everyday life.

• Each chapter offers an extensive list of hands-on projects which require students to collect and interpret data, either working alone or in groups.

• Computational procedures are separated from the body of the text in highlighted "How To Do It" boxes, allowing instructors and students to focus on interpretation rather than on computations. If the instructor wants students to learn the basics of the computations, the step-by-step format of the procedures are easy for students to follow.

• To expose students to the various technological tools used to perform statistical computations, this new text requires students to use a calculator or computer for some of the computations. Introduction to Statistical Reasoning also uses output from some popular software packages to display data and graphics where appropriate. In addition, a basic statistics package developed by the text author is available upon request.

Contents

• Part 1 Statistical Data
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Displaying Data
  • 3 Summarizing Data
  • 4 Producing Data
• Part II Statistical Data
  • 5 Explaining Data
  • 6 Estimation
  • 7 Hypothesis Tests
  • 8 Comparing Two Samples
  • 9 Using ANOVA to Compare Several Means
  • 10 Chi-Square Tests for Categorical Data
  • 11 Simple Regression
• Appendix Tables
• References
• Brief Solutions to Odd-Numbered Exercises
• Index

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