The Basic Practice of Statistics

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About This Book

The Basic Practice of Statistics has become a bestselling textbook by focusing on how statistics are gathered, analyzed, and applied to real problems and situations--and by confronting student anxieties about the course's relevance and difficulties head on. With David Moore's pioneering " data analysis" approach (emphasizing statistical thinking over computation), engaging narrative and case studies , current problems and exercises , and an accessible level of mathematics , there is no more effective textbook for showing students what working statisticians do and what accurate interpretations of data can reveal about the world we live in. In the new edition, you will once again see how everything fits together. As always, Moore's text offers balanced content , beginning with data analysis, then covering…