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A Basic Course in Statistics 5th Edition
Geoffrey Clarke, Dennis Cooke

Paperback
RRP: £25.99
ISBN: 9780340814062
ISBN-10: 0340814063

Published: 29/10/2004
Extent: 512 pages
Illustrations: 100 b/w line drawings

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Summary:
The importance of statistics stems from its usefulness. Statistics is concerned with the collection and analysis of data in order to obtain a better understanding of phenomena, and its methods have proved relevant to a wide range of subjects.

The strength of this text, now in its fifth edition, is its applicability across a range of disciplines, making it the perfect choice as an introductory textbook for first year students. Although an elementary knowledge of calculus is assumed, the main focus is on the development and application of statistical ideas. Each topic is explained with the help of numerous realistic practical examples, and reinforced by simple exercises and small projects. In this new edition, the computing content is based on Minitab, Release 14, with its extensive facilities in graphical and descriptive statistics. Additional material, including multiple-choice questions and datasets, is provided on a companion website.
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  • New text design and layout to increase accessibilty and understanding
  • Additional datasets and MCQs on companion website
  • New material on Minitab Release 14

Table of Contents:
Populations and variates
Measures of the centre of a set of observations
Samples and populations
The measurement of variability
Looking at data
Probability
Probabilities of compound events
Discrete random variable
Expectation of a random variable
Joint distributions
Estimation
Collecting data
Significance testing
Continuous random variables
The normal distribution
Sampling distributions of means and related quantities
Significance tests using the normal distribution
Estimation of intervals and parameters
Hypothesis tests using the chi-squared distribution
Poisson distribution
Correlation
The analysis of variance
Simple linear regression
Multiple regression

About the Author(s):
Geoffrey Clarke, formerly of University of Sussex Dennis Cooke, formerly of University of Sussex

Readership:
1st and 2nd year undergraduates taking statistics across a wide range of disciplines, particularly medicine, mathematics, computing sciences

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