Essential Statistics Author:David S. Moore Essential Statistics offers the same highly successful approach and pedagogy of David Moore's best-selling The Basic Practice of Statistics (BPS), Fifth Edition, but in a briefer, more concise format. Through careful rewriting, the author has shortened and simlified explanations to better highlight the key essential, statistical ideas and metho... more »ds students need to know.
The textbook is based on three principles: balanced content, the importance of ideas, and experience with data. Using a "just the basics" approach, the book clarifies and simplifies important concepts and methods, while engaging students with contemporary, realistic examples and the most current data. Throughout the book, exercises help students check and apply their skills. A four-step problem solving process in examples and exercises also encourages good habits that go beyond graphs and calculations to ask, "What do the data tell me?"« less