Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life

by Jeffrey O. Bennett, William L. Briggs, Mario F. Triola

KEY Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, Third Edition, teaches students how to be better consumers of information by showing the role of statistics in many aspects of everyday life. This text uses real examples and case studies to build an understanding of the core ideas of statistics that can be applied to a variety of subject areas. The authors include data from real sources to help students become better critical thinkers and decision makers, whether they decide to start a new business, plan for their financial future, or just watch the news. KEY Speaking of Statistics; Measurement in Statistics; Visual Displays of Data; Describing Data; A Normal World; Probability in Statistics; Correlation and Causality; From Samples to Populations; Hypothesis Testing; t Tests, Two-Way Tables, and ANOVA. For all readers interested in statistics.

Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics, Reference, School, Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2000

Reviews

[J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was informative on the subject of statistics and provided meaningful examples and interesting facts in its "by the way" sections. I used Joseph Healey's Statistics: A Tool for Social Research for a statistics course years ago, and it would be a perfect alternate to this book, as that text seems to use most of the terms this book calls "alternates" (for example, the Healey text uses the term class interval, but Bennett uses bin primarily, and calls class interval an alternative phrase). My former statistics professor had never heard the term "bin" before.

I don't know what else could be said. It does its job.

[Serge Ter Braake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended reading for any student. Basic principles of statistics are explained very well and will be an equally useful introduction for computer scientists, chemists, historians, sociologists, et cetera.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook is really simple and easy to understand. I love the little fun facts in every chapter. t makes reading the next section, not much of a chore when yu have little interesting facts to look forward to. Without my teacher thoug, I believe that I would not have a clear understanding of all the concepts in the book. The teacher cleared up a few issues that I personally had some trouble with. Without my teacher, I would not have understood everything. It would have also helped if the download cd came with instructions, because I was at a lose with how to download it. I tried, but nothing was really working. So, I just used the computers on campus for the practical applications.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I still only vaguely understand statistics but at least the book was mostly interesting.

[Latasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Math sucks. The online homework/quiz program was great though.

[David McClendon, Sr · Rating 5 out of 5]

As far as statistics textbooks go, this is a good one. It helps to make sense of some fairly difficult concepts.

[Stephanie Apicella]

I passed the class that is all that matters