This volume introduces students to the problem-solving power of statistics in the modern era of the computer. It primarily concentrates on active learning of statistical concepts and methods and presents a data-analytic approach to descriptive statistics that stresses graphic techniques of describing data. Features include: definition of probability in terms of P value; computer exercises throughout (although computer use is not mandatory with the text); statistical control and control charts; and a diskette containing the three real data sets.
- ISBN10 0534243304
- ISBN13 9780534243302
- Publish Date 15 August 1998 (first published 16 March 1993)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Company
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Language English