Statistics, Principles and Methods
by
Richard Arnold.
Statistics-the subject of data analysis and data-based reasoning-is playing an increasingly vital role in virtually all professions. Some familiarity with this subject is now an essential component of any college education. Yet, pressures to accommodate a growing list of academic requirements often necessitate that this exposure be brief. Keeping these conditions in mind, we have written this book to provide students with a first exposure to the powerful ideas of modern statistics. It presents the key statistical concepts and the most commonly applied methods of statistical analysis. Moreover, to keep it accessible to freshmen and sophomores from a wide range of disciplines, we have avoided mathematical derivations. They usually pose a stumbling block to learning the essentials in a short period of time.
This book is intended for students who do not have a strong background in mathematics but seek to leam the basic ideas of statistics and their application in a variety of practical settings. The core material of this book is common to almost all first courses in statistics and is designed to be covered well within a one-semester or two-quarter course in introductory statistics for freshmen-juniors. It is supplemented with some additional special-topics chapters. These can be covered either by teaching the core material at a faster pace or with reduced emphasis on some of the earlier chapters.
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