Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 3 edition December 30, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321434250
ISBN-13: 978-0321434258
Product Dimensions:
9.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Product Description
Key Message: Essentials of Statistics,Third Edition is the ideal text for readers who want a more economical and streamlined text that covers the essential topics. Drawn from Triola's Elementary Statistics, Tenth Edition, this text provides the same reader-friendly approach with material presented in a real-world context.
Key Topics: Introduction to Statistics; Summarizing and Graphing Data; Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data; Probability; Probability Distributions; Normal Probability Distributions; Estimates and Sample Sizes; Hypothesis Testing; Inferences from Two Samples; Correlation and Regression; Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance.
Market: For all readers interested in Statistics.
About The Author
Mario F. Triola is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Dutchess Community College, where he has taught statistics for over 30 years. Marty is the author of Elementary Statistics, 10th Edition, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, Elementary Statistics Using the TI-83 84 Plus Calculator, and he is a co-author of Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life and Business Statistics. He has written several manuals and workbooks for technology supporting statistics education. Outside of the classroom, Marty has been a speaker at many conferences and colleges. His consulting work includes the design of casino slot machines and fishing rods, and he has worked with attorneys in determining probabilities in paternity lawsuits, identifying salary inequities based on gender, analyzing disputed election results, analyzing medical data, and analyzing medical school surveys. Marty has testified as an expert witness in New York State Supreme Court. The Text and Academic Authors Association has awarded Mario F. Triola a “Texty” for Excellence for his work on Elementary Statistics.
