The Art of Data Analysis (ePub)

A friendly and accessible approach to applying statistics in
the real world

With an emphasis on critical thinking, The Art of Data
Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using Basic
Statistics presents fun and unique examples, guides readers
through the entire data collection and analysis process, and
introduces basic statistical concepts along the way.

Leaving proofs and complicated mathematics behind, the author
portrays the more engaging side of statistics and emphasizes its
role as a problem-solving tool. In addition, light-hearted
case studies illustrate the application of statistics to real data
analyses, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of commonly
used techniques. Written for the growing academic and industrial
population that uses statistics in everyday life, The Art of
Data Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using Basic
Statistics highlights important issues that often arise when
collecting and sifting through data. Featured concepts include:

* Descriptive statistics

* Analysis of variance

* Probability and sample distributions

* Confidence intervals

* Hypothesis tests

* Regression

* Statistical correlation

* Data collection

* Statistical analysis with graphs

Fun and inviting from beginning to end, The Art of Data
Analysis is an ideal book for students as well as managers and
researchers in industry, medicine, or government who face
statistical questions and are in need of an intuitive understanding
of basic statistical reasoning.