本书内容深入浅出,读者只需具备高中数学的一般知识就能读懂。作者通过丰富的例子说明了统计学的概念、原则和运算程序,这些**趣味性的例子可使读者掌握有关统计学的知识。本书包括数据的采集、整理、概括、变量之间的相互关系。本书对分类数据的统计分析也作了详尽人介绍,增强了其实用性,本书可作为理工科各专业,财经及管理类各专业的教材,也适合有关领域的教师工程师技术人员自学使用。

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CHAPTER1 Staistics Success and Cautionary Tales 1
1 What Is Statitics?
2 Seven Statistical Stories with Morals
3 The Common Elements the Seven Stories
CHAPTER2 Turning Data into lnformation
1 Raw Data
2 Types of Data
3 Summarizing One or Two Categorical Variables
4 Finding lnformation in Quantitative Data
5 Pictures for Quantitative Data
6 Numerical Summaries of Quantitative Variables
7 Bell-shaped Distributions of Numbers
CHAPTER3 Gathering Useful Data
1 Description or Decision?Using data wisely
2 speaking the language of research studies
3 designing a good experiment
4 designing a good observational study
5 difficulties and disasters in experiments and observational studies
CHAPTER4 Sampling:Surveys and How To Ask Questions
CHAPTER5 Relationships Between Quantitative Variables
CHAPTER6 Relationships Between Categorical Variables
CHAPTER7 Probability
CHAPTER8 Random Variables
CHAPTER9 Means and Proportions as Random Vaniables
CHAPTER10 Estimating proportions with confidence
CHAPTER11 Testing hypotheses about proportions
CHAPTER12 More about confidence lntervals
CHAPTER13 More about Significance tests
CHAPTER14 More about Regression
CHAPTER15 More about Categorical Variables
CHAPTER16 Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER17 Turning lnformation into Wisdom