An authoritative and balanced presentation of topics in statistics, featuring supportive pedagogy, applied examples and an emphasis on technology. The organization and design of the 5th edition has been improved, the content has been updated to reflect today's trends and research, and coverage of engaging, real-world topics is included.
PART I: EXPLORING DATA
Exploring Data: Variables and Distributions
Picturing Distributions with Graphs
Describing Distributions with Numbers
The Normal Distributions
Exploring Data: Relationships
Scatterplots and Correlation
Regression
Two-Way Tables
Exploring Data: Part I Review
PART II: FROM EXPLORATION TO INFERENCE
Producing Data
Producing Data: Sampling
Producing Data: Experiments
Commentary: Data Ethics
Probability and Sampling Distributions
Introducing Probability
Sampling Distributions
General Rules of Probability
Binomial Distributions
Foundations of Inference
Introduction to Inference
Thinking About Inference
From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review
PART III: INFERENCE ABOUT VARIABLES
Quantitative Response Variable
Inference About a Population Mean
Two-Sample Problems
Categorical Response Variable
Inference About a Population Proportion
Comparing Two Proportions
Inference About Variables: Part III Review
PART IV: INFERENCE ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Inference About Relationships
Two Categorical Variables: The Chi-Square Test
Inference for Regression
One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means
PART V: OPTIONAL COMPANION CHAPTERS
Nonparametric Tests
Statistical Process Control
Multiple Regression
Two-Way Analysis of Variance
DAVID S. MOORE is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University, USA. He received his BA from Princeton (1962), USA and PhD from Cornell (1967), USA, both in Mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as Programme Director for Statistics and Probability at the National Science Foundation. He was the 1998 President of the American Statistical Association.