统计思想：英文版·原书第2版（含CD-ROM一张）——时代教育·国外高校优秀教材精选

    本书保持了第1版的特点：作为统计学的入门教材，对数学基础知识的要求较低；用丰富、新鲜的例子说明统计学的概念、原理和运算程序，使全书极具趣味性和引人入胜；同时计算机、互联网以及多媒体教学手段的合理充分的使用，改变了统计学课程教学中原有的面貌，使学习和掌握统计学变得生动、活泼和十分容易。
全书内容包括数据的采集、整理与概括，变量之间的相关关系与分析，概率与随机变量，随机变量的数字特征，点估计和区间估计，回归分析与方差分析等内容。本书的特点是以讲统计学为主，概率论的内容服从和服务于统计学，占很小部分，而且两者穿插结合得如此恰当、完美，令人佩服。本书前四章讲抽样调查，把问题讲得很清楚、很好懂，是国内教材中不多见的。本书有两章讲分类变量之间的关系与分析，也是国内教材中不安排或很少安排的，而实际上这部分内容是很有用的。
全书自成体系，对统计学的原则和概念叙述得相当清楚和准确。书中的框图、小结等也使本书增色不少。
本书第2版比第1版在各章节中适当增加了一些内容和例子。各章节的习题有所增加，某些章节中增加了“打开计算机”的环节，为读者提供通过计算机掌握统计概念的手段。书末的光盘提供的内容要比第1版的光盘内容丰富许多。对全书的主要内容已作出PowerPoint，可直接用于双语教学。同时光盘中有数据和用各种统计软件解决实例的程序。

    

    

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序
CHAPTER 1 Success Stories and Cautionary Tales
CHAPTER 2 Turning Data into Information
CHAPTER 3 Gathering Useful
CHAPTER 4 Sampling: Surveys and How to Ask Questions
CHAPTER 5 Relationships Between Quantitative Variables
CHAPTER 6 Relationships Between Categorical Variables
CHAPTER 7 Probability
CHAPTER 8 Random Variables
CHAPTER 9 Means and Proportions as Bandom Variables
CHAPTER 10 Estimating Proportions with Confidence
CHAPTER 11 Testing Hypotheses About Proportions
CHAPTER 12 More About Confidence Intervals
CHAPTER 13 More About Significance Tests
CHAPTER 14 More About Regression
CHAPTER 15 More About Categorical Variables
CHAPTER 16 Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 17 Turning Information into Wisdom
SUPPLEMENTAL TOPIC 1 Additional Discrete Random Variables
SUPPLEMENTAL TOPIC 2 Nonparametric Tests of Hypotheses
SUPPLEMENTAL TOPIC 3 Multiple Regression
SUPPLEMENTAL TOPIC 4 Tow-Way Analysis of Variance
SUPPLEMENTAL TOPIC 5 Ethics S5-1

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