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" Statistics : "
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BL
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696948
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b519137
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| Main Entry
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Moore, David S.
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Statistics : : concepts and controversies
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| Edition Statement
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Seventh edition // David S. Moore, William I. Notz
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New York :: W.H. Freeman,, [2009]
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, ©2009
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xxxv, 607 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 24 cm
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1429229918
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: 1429237023
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: 9781429229913
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: 9781429237024
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Part I: Producing date. Where do 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? -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: Chance. Thinking about chance ; Probability models ; Simulation ; The house edge : expected values -- Part IV: 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
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QA276.12.M66 2009
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Notz, William.
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