Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data

By Ann E. Watkins, George W. Cobb, Richard L. Scheaffer

Book Overview

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition. This book teaches statistics with a modern, data-analytic approach that uses graphing calculators and statistical software. It allows more emphasis to be put on statistical concepts and data analysis than on following recipes for calculations. This gives readers a more realistic understanding of both the theoretical and practical applications of statistics, giving them the ability to master the subject. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559539097
• ISBN13: 9781559539098
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Key Curriculum Press
• Length: 894 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good, but not quite right for my statistics class.

When it was time to make a decision concerning which textbook to use in my basic statistics class, this is one of the books I examined. While I generally found it to be written at a level suitable for classes in basic statistics, there were two features that I did not like. The first was the opening presentation of chapter 1. It involves the use of statistical data to examine an alleged case of age discrimination. I consider...

Statistics in Action - the title is true!

This is a wonderful statistics book if you are teaching AP Statistics or an introductory college course or if you hated statistics in college and want to give the subject a second chance. Before you even get into the first formula, the authors provide a REAL set of data, involving an accusation of age discrimination. The rookie learner is immediately DOING statistics and the authors do not stop there. The book is crowded...