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Introductory Statistics: A First Course v2.0
By: 
Douglas S. Shafer and Zhiyi Zhang
Published: 
September 2018
Discipline: 
Math & Statistics Textbooks
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-8895-2

Introductory Statistics: A First Course provides a concise, coherent explanation of introductory statistics topics that caters to the needs of general education students in standard one-semester introductory courses. This text ensures student comprehension by focusing on important core concepts and using a variety of exercises and examples to illustrate topics covered. As a result, Introductory Statistics: A First Course provides a low-cost, high-quality alternative to existing options on the market.

Brief Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 3: Basic Concepts of Probability

Chapter 4: Discrete Random Variables

Chapter 5: Continuous Random Variables

Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions

Chapter 7: Estimation

Chapter 8: Testing Hypotheses

Chapter 9: Two-Sample Problems

Chapter 10: Correlation and Regression

Chapter 11: Chi-Square Tests and F-Tests

Appendix A: Appendix


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