Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Models by Charles Henry Brase: Used

Description: Students need to develop critical thinking skills in order to understand and evaluate the limitations of statistical methods. Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods makes students aware of method appropriateness, assumptions, biases, and justifiable conclusions. Critical thinking is an important skill for students to develop in order to avoid reaching misleading conclusions. The Critical Thinking feature provides additional clarification on specific concepts as a safeguard against incorrect evaluation of information. Increasingly, calculators and computers are used to generate the numeric results of a statistical process. However, the student still needs to correctly interpret those results in the context of a particular application. The Interpretation feature calls attention to this important step. In every section and chapter problem set, Critical Thinking problems provide students with the opportunity to test their understanding of the application of statistical methods and their interpretation of their results. Statistical LiteracyNo language can be spoken without learning the vocabulary, including statistics. Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods introduces statistical terms with deliberate care. In every section and chapter problem set, Statistical Literacy problems test student understanding of terminology, statistical methods, and the appropriate conditions for use of the different processe Whenever important terms are introduced in text, yellow definition boxes appear within the discussions. These boxes make it easy to reference or review terms as they are used further.

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