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Introductory Statistics
Sheldon M. Ross
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Description for Introductory Statistics
Hardback. Num Pages: 828 pages. BIC Classification: PBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 243 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1794.
Introductory Statistics, Fourth Edition, reviews statistical concepts and techniques in a manner that will teach students not only how and when to utilize the statistical procedures developed, but also how to understand why these procedures should be used. The text's main merits are the clarity of presentation, contemporary examples and applications from diverse areas, an explanation of intuition, and the ideas behind the statistical methods. Concepts are motivated, illustrated, and explained in a way that attempts to increase one's intuition. To quote from the preface, it is only when a student develops a feel or ... Read more
Introductory Statistics, Fourth Edition, reviews statistical concepts and techniques in a manner that will teach students not only how and when to utilize the statistical procedures developed, but also how to understand why these procedures should be used. The text's main merits are the clarity of presentation, contemporary examples and applications from diverse areas, an explanation of intuition, and the ideas behind the statistical methods. Concepts are motivated, illustrated, and explained in a way that attempts to increase one's intuition. To quote from the preface, it is only when a student develops a feel or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
828
Place of Publication
San Diego, United States
ISBN
9780128043172
SKU
V9780128043172
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About Sheldon M. Ross
Dr. Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 1968. He has published many technical articles and textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability. Among his texts are A First Course in Probability, Introduction to Probability ... Read more
Reviews for Introductory Statistics
The coverage is careful and slow, with many worked examples and plenty of problems, half of which have answers. ...Illuminating examples abound. Those who are less than wholly confident about any of the material will find it a rich and unthreatening resource of information and also of questions (even if they are almost all derived from a US context). I ... Read more