Synopsis
The data analysis approach pioneered by David Moore was first introduced in this groundbreaking brief text for liberal arts students. By emphasizing concepts and applications to a wide range of fields (as opposed to formulas and computation) the text has become an influential bestseller, and its emphasis on ideas and data is now generally acknowledged as the most effective way to teach statistics to nonmathematical students. Featuring new coauthor, William Notz and new features, exercises, and applications, the sixth edition of Stastisics: Concepts and Controversies is ready to reveal the power of statistics to a new generation of students.
Booknews
This textbook examines statistical ideas and reasoning and their relevance to public policy and the human sciences from medicine to sociology. It is not intended as a treatment of statistical theory and methods, except as they apply to these issues. Moore (Purdue U.) discusses concepts such as sampling errors, the wording of questions, data ethics, displaying distributions with graphs, scatterplots, correlations, probability models, and the use and abuse of statistical inference. The previous edition's eight chapters have been separated into 25 short ones. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)