Intuitive Introductory Statistics

Description

This textbook is designed to give an engaging introduction to statistics and the art of data analysis. The unique scope includes, but also goes beyond, classical methodology associated with the normal distribution. What if the normal model is not valid for a particular data set? This cutting-edge approach provides the alternatives. It is an introduction to the world and possibilities of statistics that uses exercises, computer analyses, and simulations throughout the core lessons. These elementary statistical methods are intuitive. Counting and ranking features prominently in the text. Nonparametric methods, for instance, are often based on counts and ranks and are very easy to integrate into an introductory course.​ The ease of computation with advanced calculators and statistical software, both of which factor into this text, allows important techniques to be introduced earlier in the study of statistics. This book's novel scope also includes measuring symmetry with Walsh averages, finding a nonparametric regression line, jackknifing, and bootstrapping​. Concepts and techniques are explored through practical problems. Quantitative reasoning is at the core of so many professions and academic disciplines, and this book opens the door to the most modern possibilities. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Exploratory Data Analysis: Observing Patterns and Departures from Patterns (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 1-142 Exploring Bivariate and Categorical Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 143-198 Designing a Survey or Experiment: Deciding What and How to Measure (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 199-241 Understanding Random Events: Producing Models Using Probability and Simulation (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 243-330 Sampling Distributions and Approximations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 331-415 Statistical Inference: Estimating Probabilities and Testing and Confirming Models (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 417-535 Statistical Inference for the Center of a Population (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 537-631 Statistical Inference for Matched Pairs or Paired Replicates Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 633-668 Statistical Inference for Two Populations–Independent Samples (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 669-771 Statistical Inference for Two-Way Tables of Count Data (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 773-837 Statistical Inference for Bivariate Populations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 839-905 Statistical Inference for More Than Two Populations (Douglas A. Wolfe, Grant Schneider)....Pages 907-945 Back Matter ....Pages 947-976