The art and science of learning from data /
Agresti, Alan,
The art and science of learning from data / Alan Agresti, University of Florida, Christine Franklin, University of Georgia, Bernhard Klingenberg, Williams College. - Fifth edition. - pages cm
Includes index.
"One of our goals in writing this book was to help make the conceptual approach more interesting and more readily accessible to students. At the end of the course, we want students to look back at their statistics course and realize that they learned practical concepts that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. We also want students to come to appreciate that in practice, assumptions are not perfectly satisfied, models are not exactly correct, distributions are not exactly normally distributed, and different factors should be considered in conducting a statistical analysis. The title of our book reflects the experience of data analysts, who soon realize that statistics is an art as well as a science"--
9780136468769
2019059746
Statistics--Textbooks.
QA276.12 / .A35 2020
519.5 AGR / 24682
The art and science of learning from data / Alan Agresti, University of Florida, Christine Franklin, University of Georgia, Bernhard Klingenberg, Williams College. - Fifth edition. - pages cm
Includes index.
"One of our goals in writing this book was to help make the conceptual approach more interesting and more readily accessible to students. At the end of the course, we want students to look back at their statistics course and realize that they learned practical concepts that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. We also want students to come to appreciate that in practice, assumptions are not perfectly satisfied, models are not exactly correct, distributions are not exactly normally distributed, and different factors should be considered in conducting a statistical analysis. The title of our book reflects the experience of data analysts, who soon realize that statistics is an art as well as a science"--
9780136468769
2019059746
Statistics--Textbooks.
QA276.12 / .A35 2020
519.5 AGR / 24682