{"product_id":"elementary-statistics-isbn-9780471401421","title":"Elementary Statistics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis focused, data-driven text shows students from a wide-variety of disciplines how to use statistics as a tool for making informed decisions. It teaches students how to analyze and turn the data that surrounds them info useful, inference-based information. Throughout, emphasis is placed on statistical reasoning, interpretation, and decision-making.\u003c\/p\u003e  Introduction: The Role of Statistics in Life.  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Language of Statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Graphical Displays of Data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Numerical Descriptors of Data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Analyzing Bivariate Data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Probability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Random Variables and Probability Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Hypothesis Testing: An Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Inferences: More One-Population Tests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Comparing Two Populations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Regression Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Multiple Regression Models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Experimental Design and ANOVA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14. The Analysis of Qualitative Data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Nonparametric Statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Making Your Case.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A. Statistical Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B. Explanation of Large Data Sets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C. Conditional Probability and Bayes' Rule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix D. The Poisson Probability Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix E. Exercises Appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDr. Marilyn Pelosi\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at Western New England College in Springfield, MA. Dr. Pelosi, a Rhode Island native graduated from Brown University, where she met her husband. She received her PhD. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, where she met co-author Terry Sandifer. Dr. Pelosi has worked as a statistician for the government in Washington DC., and taught Industrial Engineering at Western New England College before moving to her current position in the School of Business. Dr. Pelosi is known for her enthusiastic teaching style and for using real data from consulting projects in the classroom. Dr. Pelosi has two children and enjoys reading, traveling, and watching movies.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Terry Sandifer\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She graduated from Iona College and received her PhD. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts, where she met both her husband and Dr. Pelosi. She continued her career teaching Industrial Engineering at Western New England College with Dr. Pelosi. Dr. Sandifer then spend five years working as a statistician for the Kimberly Clark Corporation before returning to teaching. A Brooklyn, NY, native, Dr. Sandifer has two children and enjoys reading, shopping, and playing video games.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Pelosi and Dr. Sandifer have been best friends since graduate school and have co-authored three statistician workbooks and a business statistics textbook.\u003c\/p\u003e When you purchase a NEW copy of \u003cb\u003eELEMENTARY STATISTICS From Discovery to Decision\u003c\/b\u003e, you're not just getting a text, you're getting access to a host of data files, tutorials, and other CD-based resources! \u003cp\u003eThe free CR-Rom that is part of this text package contains the following key resources that are essential to your success:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe real-world \u003cb\u003eData Sets\u003c\/b\u003e are  linked to various exercises and problems in the text.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePowerPoint\u003c\/b\u003e Slides illustrate key concepts from the text. 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