Understandable Statistics Paperback
Brase, Charles Henry/ Brase, Corrinne Pellillo | Houghton Mifflin
0원 | 99991230 | 9780618496587
Understandable Statistics is a thorough, yet approachable statistics text. Designed to help students overcome their apprehension about statistics, the text provides guidance and informal advice showing students the links between statistics and their everyday lives. To reinforce this approach, the book integrates real-life data selected from a variety of sources including journals, periodicals, newspapers and the Internet. The use of graphing calculators, Excel, Minitab and SPSS is covered, but not required. A robust set of technology resources accompanying the Eighth Edition, designed to provide reinforcement for struggling students, includes a market-leading video and DVD series, interactive lessons, and simulations. Procedures, brief summary outlines, review the basic assumptions and statistical methods of each section, including how to compute statistical measurements, select and create appropriate graphs, find confidence intervals, conduct statistical tests, and more. Examples and Guided Exercises demonstrate each procedure. Solutions and key-steps to odd-numbered problems reflect the steps shown in the procedures. Highlighted Definitions throughout the text provide reinforcement of key terms and easy reference for students. Expand Your Knowledge problems challenge students to explore and expand upon basic concepts presented in the text. Cumulative Review Problems appear at the end of Chapters 3, 6, 9, and 12 to integrate previous material, with emphasis on the topics of the preceding three chapters. Focus problems are clearly identified throughout the text. Interactive lessons, available in Eduspace online learning environment, combine animation, voice instruction, video, and other elements to illustrate important statistical concepts. e-Book (electronic version of the text) provides an enhanced learning environment that reinforces concepts through the use of web links, interactive lessons, simulations, and video. Simulations (Java-based applets) allow students to manipulate data to simulate the effects of changes in the statistical environment. Technology Focus problems now include instructions for the SPSS statistical software package. Guided Exercises immediately following selected examples give students the opportunity to work with new concepts before they are presented in the text. Completely worked-out solutions beside each exercise give immediate reinforcement. Focus Points! at the beginning of each section list the various concepts that will be covered in the section. Chapter Preview Questions ask the most pertinent questions that a student should be able to answer after reading the chapter material. Section numbers provided with the questions refer students to the relevant material in the text. Chapter Focus Problems in the opening discussion of each chapter demonstrate the types of questions students will be able to answer once they have mastered the concepts and skills covered in the chapter. Tech Notes! provide general tips on appropriate use of the TI-83 Plus, Minitab, SPSS, and Excel. They also incorporate display screens from each of these technologies to help students work through a statistical problem and better understand the solution. Denoted by an icon, Tech Notes appears in section examples when appropriate. Data Highlights: Group
