本书系统地讲述了如何正确地收集数据资料，如何利用简单的统计软件MNITAB进行统计分析，以及如何从中得到有意义的统计结论。书中从各个应用层面和案例分析进行论述，在使用尽量少的概率知识的前提下，介绍了应用统计的基本内容。书中着重形象思维与直观判断，多用图形表示来浅显地引进各种统计概念；层次分明，每段都有主要的概念与公式的小结和大量的练习題，各个领域的应用使用了不同的图标，便于读者复习总结；各章都有光盘数据的案例，有利于做“实战练习”；以统计软件MINITAB带动统计计算，使用方便。

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Introduction:An lnvitation to Statistics
The Population and the Sample
Descriptive and Inferential Staistics
Achieving the Objective of Inferential Statistics:The Necessart Steps
1 Describing Data with Graphs
2 Describing Data with Numerical Merasures
3 Describing Bivariate Data
4 Probability and Probability Distributions
5 Several Useful Discrete Distributions
6 The Normal Probability Distribution
7 Sampling Distributions
8 Large-Sample Estimation
9 Large-Sample Tests of Hypotheses 出版说明
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Introduction:An lnvitation to Statistics
The Population and the Sample
Descriptive and Inferential Staistics
Achieving the Objective of Inferential Statistics:The Necessart Steps
1 Describing Data with Graphs
2 Describing Data with Numerical Merasures
3 Describing Bivariate Data
4 Probability and Probability Distributions
5 Several Useful Discrete Distributions
6 The Normal Probability Distribution
7 Sampling Distributions
8 Large-Sample Estimation
9 Large-Sample Tests of Hypotheses
10 Interence from Small Samples
11 The Analysis of Variavce
12 Linera Regressing and Correlation
13 Multiple Regression Amalysis
14 Analysis of Cat4egorical Data
15 Nonparametric Statistics
Appendix l
Answers to Selected Exercises
Index
Credits
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