Overview
This presentation of statistical methods features extensive use of graphical displays for exploring data and for displaying the analysis. The authors demonstrate how to analyze data—showing code, graphics, and accompanying computer listings. They emphasize how to construct and interpret graphs, discuss principles of graphical design, and show how tabular results are used to confirm the visual impressions derived from the graphs. Many of the graphical formats are novel and appear here for the first time in print.
Synopsis
This book can serve as a stand-alone text for a contemporary year-long course in statistical methods. The book is organized around statistical topics with each chapter introducing concepts and terminology, developing the rationale for its methods, presenting the mathematics and calculations for its methods, and giving examples supported by graphs and computer output. The emphasis on graphical displays is a distinguishing characteristic as the essence of most statistical analyes is best conveyed with graphs.