making inference collection statistics

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3 reviews
William F. Stout, John I. Marden, ...

Mobius Communications Ltd, 1999

modern approach to statistics that includes resampling methods
I found out about this book mainly because I am a resampling methods author and was discussing resampling one time with the a faculty member and chairman (Jan DeLeeuw) of the Statistics Department at UCLA. Apparently they were using it for the introductory statistics course that they give. It is unusual to take a resampling approach to elementary statistics. The late Julian Simon at ...

Statistics: The Craft of Data Collection, Description, and Inference

1 review

Mobius Communications, 2000

Lacking
The fact that I seem to be statistically challenged may be the cause of a clouded review; however, I feel that this book leaves out a great deal of information pertinent to finding your way from point A to B. The layout also leaves much to be desired. Examples frequently correspond to other examples in previous pages so that you are constantly flipping pages and trying to sort out what's what. ...