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  <titleInfo>
    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>basic practice of statistics</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Moore, David S.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Freeman</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>5th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xxxi, 730 pages : Color illustrations ;</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>This is a clear and innovative overview of statistics which emphasises major ideas, essential skills and real-life data. The organisation and design has been improved for the fifth edition, coverage of engaging, real-world topics has been increased and content has been updated to appeal to today's trends and research.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Picturing distributions with graphs -- Describing distributions with numbers -- The normal distributions -- Scatterplots and correlation -- Regression -- Two-way tables -- Exploring data : pt. 1 review -- Producing data : sampling -- Producing data : experiments -- Commentary : data ethics -- Introducing probability -- Sampling distributions -- General rules of probability -- Binomial distributions -- Introduction to inference -- Thinking about inference -- From exploration to inference : pt. 2 review -- Inference about a population mean -- Two-sample problems -- Inference about a population proportion -- Comparing two proportions -- Inference about variables : pt. 3 review -- Two categorical variables : the chi-square test -- Inference for regression -- One-way analysis of variance : comparing several means.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Available only on the CD and online : Nonparametric tests -- Statistical process control -- Multiple regression -- More about analysis of variance.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QA 276.12 MOO</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781429224260</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">1429224266</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781429224239</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">1429224231</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781429201216</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">1429201215</identifier>
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