A First Course in Statistics

A First Course in Statistics

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<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>KEY MESSAGE</B>: The <B>Tenth Edition</B> of this highly-regarded introductory text emphasizes inference and sound decision-making through its extensive coverage of data collection and analysis. McClave develops statistical thinking and teaches readers to properly assess the credibility of inferences-from the vantage point of both the consumer and the producer. This edition incorporates more exercises and more visual features, such as redesigned end-of-chapter summaries and an increased use of applets. This text assumes a mathematical background of basic algebra.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>KEY TOPICS</B>: Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking; Methods for Describing Sets of Data; Probability (from McClave 11e-Chap 3); Random Variables and Probability Distributions; Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals; Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis; Comparing Population Means; Comparing Population Proportions; Simple Linear Regression</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>MARKET</B>: For all readers interested in statistics.</P>