Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences W/Student CD

Name: Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences W/Student CD
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ISBN: 9781429218764

ISBN-10: 1429218762

ISBN-13: 9781429218764

Edition: 2009

Authors: Brigitte Baldi, David S. Moore

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Over the past two decades, David Moore's texts helped drive the evolution of statistics education from a focus on computation and formulas to an emphasis on how data are actually collected, analyzed, and interpreted by professionals in real-world settings. Now Brigitte Baldi and David Moore have produced a version of Moore's bestselling brief introductory text,The Basic Practice of Statisticsfor students in the life sciences.With its focus on life science data sets, examples, and exercises,The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences(PSLS) features the writing style and helpful pedagogy that have helped hundreds of thousands of students see the meaning and relevance of real-world…

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List price: $148.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company
Publication date: 1/9/2008
Binding: Box or Slipcased
Size: 8.83" wide x 10.16" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English

David S. Moore is a professor of psychology at Pitzer College and at Claremont Graduate University. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology from Harvard University and did his postdoctoral work at the City University of New York.




Exploring Data


Exploring Data: Variables and Distributions



Picturing Distributions with Graphs



Describing Distributions with Numbers


Exploring Data: Relationships



Scatterplots and Correlation



Regression



Two-Way Tables



Exploring Data: Part I Review



From Exploration to Inference


Producing Data



Samples and Observational Studies



Designing Experiments


Probability and Sampling Distributions



Introducing Probability



General Rules of Probability



The Normal Distributions



Discrete Probability Distributions



Sampling Distributions


The Idea of Inference



Introduction to Inference



Inference in Practice



From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review



Inference about Variables



Inference about a Population Mean



Two-Sample Problems



Inference about a Population Proportion



Comparing Two Proportions



The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit


Inference about Relationships



The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables: Two Categorical Variables



Inference for Regression



One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means



Inference: Part III Review



Optional Companion Chapters (available on the PSLS CD and online)



Beyond One-Way ANOVA: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA



Nonparametric Tests