Seeing Through Statistics

Jessica M. Utts

Cengage Learning, 2005 - Mathematics - 584 pages

This third edition of Jessica Utts' popular book develops statistical literacy and critical thinking through real-world applications, with an emphasis on ideas, not calculations. This text focuses on the key concepts that educated citizens need to know ab

Contents

• PART: 1
• CHAPTER: 15
• 3: 36
• CHAPTER 4: 57
• CHAPTER 5: 81
• CHAPTER 6: 107
• PART: 121
• CHAPTER: 147
• 9: 162
• CHAPTER 10: 180
• CHAPTER 11: 200
• 12: 218
• CHAPTER 13: 242
• 14: 266
• 15: 282
• PART: 295
• CHAPTER 17: 319
• 18: 335
• 4: 353
• CHAPTER 20: 373
• CHAPTER 21: 389
• 22: 411
• CHAPTER 23: 433
• CHAPTER: 452
• CHAPTER: 467
• CHAPTER 26: 484
• 27: 506
• CASE STUDY 27 2 Children on the Go: 508
• Contents of the Appendix and Accompanying CD: 521
• Solutions to Selected Exercises: 541
• Credits: 559

About the author

Jessica Utts is a Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Davis, where she joined the faculty in 1978. She received her B.A. in Math and Psychology at SUNY Binghamton, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Statistics at Penn State University. She is the author of SEEING THROUGH STATISTICS (3rd edition, 2005) and the co-author with Robert Heckard of STATISTICAL IDEAS AND METHODS (1st edition, 2006) both published by Duxbury Press. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of CYBERSTATS, an interactive online introductory statistics course. Jessica has been active in the Statistics Education community at the high school and college level. She served as a member and then chaired the Advanced Placement Statistics Development Committee for six years, and was a member of the American Statistical Association task force that produced the GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) recommendations for Elementary Statistics courses. She is the recipient of the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, both at the University of California at Davis. She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beyond statistics education Jessica's major contributions have been in applying statistics to a variety of disciplines, most notably to parapsychology, the laboratory study of psychic phenomena. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including Larry King Live, ABC Nightline, CNN Morning News and 20/20, and most recently appears in a documentary included on the DVD with the movie "Suspect Zero.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Seeing Through Statistics; Available Titles CengageNOW Series
• Author: Jessica M. Utts
• Edition: 3, illustrated
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2005
• ISBN: 0534394027, 9780534394028
• Length: 584 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General