{"product_id":"a-primer-in-data-reduction-isbn-9780471101352","title":"A Primer in Data Reduction","description":"A concise, easy to understand introduction that emphasizes the relevance of statistics to real world problems. Describes traditional statistical methods, their uses and limitations, and explains how to reduce numerical data to statistical summaries, how to interpret the results, and how to present the data clearly. Minimizes mathematics without oversimplification and illustrates theories with practical, varied examples. Statistical tables and answers to the exercises are included. STATISTICAL VARIATION.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Averages.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Scatter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Structured Tables.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Observed Distributions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Theoretical Distributions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Probability Models.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SAMPLING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taking a Sample.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How Sample Means Vary.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Estimation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tests of Significance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e RELATIONSHIPS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Correlation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Regression.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Many Sets of Data.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Many Variables.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e COMMUNICATING DATA.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Numbers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tables.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Graphs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Words.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e EMPIRICAL GENERALIZATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Description.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I Explanation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Observation and Explanation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendixes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. \u003cp\u003eAndrew Ehrenberg (1 May 1926 – 25 August 2010) was a statistician and marketing scientist. For over half a century, he made contributions to the methodology of data collection, analysis and presentation, and to understanding buyer behaviour and how advertising works.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAndrew Ehrenberg was born in Germany in 1926 into a well-known academic family. His father was Hans Ehrenberg, his uncle was the historian Victor Ehrenberg, and Geoffrey and Lewis Elton his cousins. He moved to England with his parents in 1938, and attended Queen's College, Taunton. Subsequently he studied statistics at Kings College, Newcastle and Cambridge University.\u003c\/p\u003e This is an introductory text in statistics for those who are not specialists in the subject. It makes the subject more relevant for students who have to use statistics as part of their other studies. It avoids mathematics without oversimplifying, emphasizing numeracy and relevance. It not only describes traditional statistical methods but deals with their limitations and discusses alternatives. \u003cp\u003eThe approach derives from the Author's earlier successful book on \u003ci\u003eData Reduction\u003c\/i\u003e adapted here for classroom use. It covers the basic topics of a statistics course: averages and measures of scatter, frequency distributions and probability, sampling and statistical inference, relationships (including correlation regression, lawlike relationships, and an introduction to multivariate methods), the communication of data, and the design and interpretation of scientific studies. A teachers' guide is available from the publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eData Reduction\u003c\/i\u003e is a very innovative different kind of basic statistical book. I believe our discipline and the disciplines of those whose students we teach would be much better off if we based our first and second courses on Ehrenberg's book rather than on any book of which I am aware.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBrian L. Joiner, review of \u003ci\u003eData Reduction\u003c\/i\u003e, JASA, September 1982\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is rare for a text-book, particularly an elementary one, to appeal to the established practitioner many of the tenets contained in this excellent, clear, short and readable work, make one regret it was not available sooner.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Business Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, Spring 1983\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you have time to read just one book on basic statistics, The Primer should be it.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChuck Chakrapani, \u003ci\u003ePMRS Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Toronto, Nov 1982\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988642971877,"sku":"NP9780471101352","price":118.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471101352.jpg?v=1761781088","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-primer-in-data-reduction-isbn-9780471101352","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}