Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

6th Edition

David S. Moore, William I. Notz

DAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. He received his A.B. from Princeton (1962) and the Ph.D. from Cornell (1967), both in Mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as programme director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He was 1998 President of the American Statistical Association. About the book In the sixth edition of his landmark text, David Moore emphasizes the concepts and applications of statistics from a wide range of fields - encouraging students to see the meaning behind statistical results. Moore's emphasis on ideas and data with minimal computation is acknowledged as the most effective way to teach non-mathematical students. CONTENTS PART ONE: PRODUCING DATA Where Does Data Come From? Samples, Good and Bad What Do Samples Tell Us? Sample Surveys in the Real World Experiments, Good and Bad Experiments in the Real World Data Ethics Measuring Do the Numbers Make Sense? Review I: Producing Data PART TWO: ORGANIZING DATA Graphs Good and Bad Displaying Distributions with Graphs Describing Distributions with Numbers Normal Distributions Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics Review II: Organizing Data PART THREE: CHANCE Thinking about Chance Probability Models Simulation The House Edge: Expected Values Review III: Chance PART FOUR: INFERENCE What is a Confidence Interval? What is a Test of Significance? Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test Inference About a Population Means PART FOUR: Review

Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

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