Introductory Statistics: A Problem-Solving Approach
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Beschreibung
In almost every occupation and in ordinary daily life, students will have to make data-driven decisions and inferences, as well as assess risk. This textbook helps students develop the fundamental lifelong skill of solving problems and interpreting solutions in real-world terms.The author makes the problem-solving approach accessible and easy to apply in many situations which is especially important for students from a wide range of academic and career backgrounds, including business, science and technology, and education. This text is designed to help students fully understand the steps in basic statistical arguments, emphasising the importance of assumptions in order to follow valid arguments or identify inaccurate conclusions. Most importantly, students will understand the process of statistical inference.
A Problem Solving Approach
Now available with Macmillan’s Achieve, Introductory Statistics helps students develop the fundamental lifelong skill of solving problems and interpreting solutions in real-world terms. One of our goals was to make this problem-solving approach accessible and easy to apply in many situations. We certainly want students to appreciate the beauty of statistics and connections to so many other disciplines. However, it is even more important for students to be able to apply problem-solving skills to a wide range of academic and career pursuits, including business, science and technology, and education.
Achieve for Introductory Statistics connects the problem-solving approach and real-world examples in the book to rich digital resources that foster further understanding and application of statistics. Assets in Achieve support learning before, during, and after class for students, while providing instructors with class performance analytics in an easy-to-use interface.A mobile, interactive e-book, powered by VitalSource, allows students to highlight notes.
Videos provide additional exposure to key concepts and examples.
LearningCurve adaptive quizzing puts the concept of "testing to learn" into action.
Undergraduate students studying mathematics and statistics
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Stephen Kokoska
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