Statistics: Concepts and Controversies

Tenth Edition

Publication Date: November 01, 2019

Paperback ISBN: 9781319324834

Pages: 672

Statistics for the liberal arts students.

Statistics: Concepts and Controversies is a book on statistical ideas and statistical reasoning and on their relevance to public policy and to the human sciences from medicine to sociology. Many fundamental graphical and numerical techniques are included in the text to give flesh to the

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1 Where Do Data Come From?

2 Samples, Good and Bad

3 What Do Samples Tell Us?

4 Sample Surveys in the Real World

5 Experiments, Good and Bad

6 Experiments in the Real World

7 Data Ethics

8 Measuring

9 Do the Numbers Make Sense?

10 Graphs, Good and Bad

11 Displaying Distributions with Graphs

12 Describing Distributions with Numbers

13 Normal Distributions

14 Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation

15 Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation

16 The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics

17 Thinking about Chance

18 Probability Models

19 Simulation

20 The House Edge: Expected Values

21 What Is a Confidence Interval?

22 What Is a Test of Significance?

23 Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference

24 Two-Way Tables and the Chi-Square TestIndex

The ‘Statistics Concepts and Controversies’ Video Series is included in this edition.
The most approachable conceptual book in the Liberal Statistics market, a project that lives in the GAISE guidelines, and has a core focus on statistical ideas and statistical reasoning through many features including chapter goals, illustrative examples, “what’s the verdict” applications, engaging opening case studies and much more

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The inclusion of Chapter Goals. Each chapter now opens with a brief list of learning goals to prepare the student for what lies ahead. At the end of each chapter, Chapter Achievements are listed which reinforce these main concepts the student has now mastered.
The revised GAISE report encourages introductory classes to expose students to multiple variable thinking. As a result, we decided to include a short subsection in Chapter 14 that gives students some insight into how relationships between several variables can be investigated graphically.
Over one-third of the examples and exercises are revised to reflect current data and a variety of topics. They cover a wide range of application areas, adding interest and relevance for students. New example and exercise topics include Brexit; determining the mood of the nation; digital media use and ADHD; Android vs. iOS; psychology and the 2016 U.S. election; New Year’s Eve in Times Square; one-bedroom apartment rents; political views of college students; three-point shooting; graduation plans.
At least half the case studies have been updated or changed to include more-relevant topics. New topics include a discussion of estimating crowd size (Chapter 9), how the number of Starbucks in a town is related to home prices (Chapter 15), use of social media (Chapter 21), and political party affil-iation and beliefs about freedom of speech (Chapter 24).
‘What’s the Verdict?’ is a new feature that offers a series of questions that challenge students to start applying what they have just learned to evaluate some real issue. In some ways, students will be mimicking the sort of discussion that occurs in many of the chapter examples. These will be placed at the ends of selected chapters, but icons will appear in the body of a chapter indicating those questions that students are now equipped to answer. An ongoing “What’s the Verdict” issue might appear in several places within a given chapter and even span several different chapters. Real statistical examples involve multiple concepts in SCC, and as students learn new concepts, these can help them come to a fuller understanding of how to assess real examples.

David S. Moore

David S. Moore is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Purdue University and was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association. He received his AB from Princeton and his PhD from Cornell, both in mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore 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 program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation.

In recent years, Professor Moore has devoted his attention to the teaching of statistics. He was the content developer for the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting college-level telecourse Against All Odds: Inside Statistics and for the series of video modules Statistics: Decisions through Data, intended to aid the teaching of statistics in schools. He is the author of influential articles on statistics education and of several leading texts. Professor Moore has served as president of the International Association for Statistical Education and has received the Mathematical Association of America’s national award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics.

William I. Notz

William I. Notz is Professor of Statistics at the Ohio State University. He received his B.S. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University. His first academic job was as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University. While there, he taught the introductory concepts course with Professor Moore and as a result of this experience he developed an interest in statistical education. Professor Notz is a co-author of EESEE (the Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises) and co-author of Statistics: Concepts and Controversies.

Professor Notz’s research interests have focused on experimental design and computer experiments. He is the author of several research papers and of a book on the design and analysis of computer experiments. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has served as the editor of the journal Technometrics and as editor of the Journal of Statistics Education. He has served as the Director of the Statistical Consulting Service, as acting chair of the Department of Statistics for a year, and as an Associate Dean in the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Ohio State University. He is a winner of the Ohio State University’s Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.

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